Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

what did the skipper forget to ask?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skipper · What happens: forget, not ask

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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 forget	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skipper	det
4	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forget	nsubj
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forget	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · do-support	the skipper						tree rules
2	not ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the skipper not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Where it was made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 made	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

The price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

How to stop it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 stop	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 stop	mark
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 4

How to start it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 start	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 start	mark
3	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 start	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 start	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start up	to-infinitive		it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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