Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

bruh, why couldn't the rich bro stop the mill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich bro · What happens: not stop · To what, where: mill

This is test 5 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	9 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 stop	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stop	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bro	det
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bro	amod
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	nsubj
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	could	the rich bro	the mill					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mill=Eventuality

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

He was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					tired property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He didn't know the secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	He	the secret					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus

Option 3

He never learned the trade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learned	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 learned	advmod
3	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trade	det
5	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	past	He	the trade					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic

Option 4

He lost it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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