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

lol who was chopping logs in the shed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: chop · To what, where: logs, shed

This is test 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. 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 chopping	discourse
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 chopping	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chopping	aux
4	chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chopping	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 shed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shed	det
8	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopping	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chopping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past · progressive		logs		the shed			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent log=Patient in shed=Location

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

A stranger who came in from the snow carrying a sack of grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carrying	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stranger	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sack	det
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carrying	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 grain	case
13	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	a stranger			the snow			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from snow=Initial_Location
2	carry	gerund	a stranger	a sack of grain					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An old dude with a white beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dude	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dude	amod
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 beard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beard	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	amod
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dude	nmod

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

Option 3

An old lady with grey hair singing a song in the yard by the gate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lady	nmod
7	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 lady	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 song	det
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 singing	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 yard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 yard	det
12	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 singing	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	a old lady with grey hair not said here	a song				in the yard; by the gate	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

A tall man with a grey coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 coat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coat	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coat	amod
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	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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