Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

What was the principal reason the skipper desired the mill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: skipper · What happens: be, desire · To what, where: principal reason, mill

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1446 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper buys the magic mill for salt» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skipper	det
7	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desired	nsubj
8	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mill	det
10	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desired	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason					tree rules
2	desire	past	the skipper	the mill					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mill=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 · ✓ the right answer

To produce salt without perilous voyages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 produce	mark
2	produce	produce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produce	obj
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 voyages	case
5	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voyages	amod
6	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 produce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	to-infinitive		salt				without perilous voyages	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Result

Option 2

To produce gold without dangerous trips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 produce	mark
2	produce	produce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produce	obj
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 trips	case
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trips	amod
6	trips	trip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 produce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	to-infinitive		gold				without dangerous trips	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Result

Option 3

To sell salt without any long journeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sell	mark
2	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sell	obj
4	without	without	ADP	_	7 journeys	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 journeys	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 journeys	amod
7	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive		salt				without any long journeys	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme

Option 4

To produce salt at home without any perilous voyages across the wild sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 produce	mark
2	produce	produce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produce	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produce	obl
6	without	without	ADP	_	9 voyages	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 voyages	det
8	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 voyages	amod
9	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 produce	obl
10	across	across	ADP	_	13 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sea	amod
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	to-infinitive		salt		home		without any perilous voyages; across the wild sea	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Result

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