Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

wait, which creature did the giant call to suck up the water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, creature · What happens: wait, do, suck up · To what, where: giant call, water

This is test 6 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 creature	det
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 call	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 call	amod
8	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 suck	mark
10	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 call	acl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 suck	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suck	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	which creature	the giant call	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality
3	suck up	to-infinitive	which creature not said here	the water	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source

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

the sea-swallower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swallower	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallower	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sea	punct
4	swallower	swallower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the cloud-drinker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drinker	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinker	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cloud	punct
4	drinker	drinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the river-sucker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sucker	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sucker	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 river	punct
4	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the great sucker from the northern river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sucker	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sucker	amod
3	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sucker	nmod

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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