Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…
ngl, what did the mill make first on Christmas?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: do, make · To what, where: mill, Christmas
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 ngl | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mill | det |
| 6 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 make | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Christmas | case |
| 10 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | ngl | the mill | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | present | ngl | Christmas | first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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
Gold, then a candle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 candle | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 candle | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 candle | det |
| 5 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Light, then a table-cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cloth | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 cloth | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cloth | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloth | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 table | punct |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Light | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Salt, then a loaf of bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loaf | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 loaf | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 loaf | det |
| 5 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Salt | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loaf | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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