Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

fr, what was in the cauldron when the giant checked it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be, check · To what, where: cauldron, giant

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 checked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cauldron	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 cauldron	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cauldron	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cauldron	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cauldron	det
7	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 checked	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 checked	nsubj
11	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 checked	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 checked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fr and the cauldron			the cauldron			tree rules
2	check	past	fr and the cauldron	giant					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

bones and stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stones	cc
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bones	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

shoe-soles and rags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soles	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 shoe	punct
3	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rags	cc
5	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soles	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a mess of shoe-soles, rags and bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mess	det
2	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 soles	case
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soles	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 shoe	punct
6	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mess	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rags	punct
8	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 soles	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bones	cc
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 soles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mess			shoe soles and rags and bones					nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

a pot of broth and shoe-soles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 broth	case
4	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 soles	cc
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soles	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 shoe	punct
8	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pot	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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