Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

What did the mill produce when it flooded the kitchen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: produce · What happens: do, flood · To what, where: mill produce, kitchen

This is exam question 4 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 produce	det
4	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 produce	compound
5	produce	produce	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 flooded	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flooded	nsubj
8	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flooded	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the mill produce					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent produce=Eventuality
2	flood	past	produce	the kitchen					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kitchen=Patient

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

Salt and fresh oat cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cakes	cc
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cakes	amod
4	oat	oat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cakes	compound
5	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Salt	conj

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

Option 2

Oats and barley bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bread	cc
3	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bread	compound
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Oats	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Herrings and milk pottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pottage	cc
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pottage	compound
4	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Herrings	conj

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

Option 4

Milk only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Milk	advmod

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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