Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

so the mill flooded the whole kitchen with what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mill · What happens: flood · To what, where: whole kitchen

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 flooded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mill	det
3	mill	mill	NOUN	_	4 flooded	nsubj
4	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kitchen	amod
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flooded	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 flooded	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 flooded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	past	the mill	the whole kitchen					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kitchen=Patient with what=Instrument

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

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

Gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	compound
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Herrings, milk pottage, and a whole barrel of salt from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pottage	punct
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pottage	compound
4	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Herrings	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 barrel	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 barrel	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 barrel	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 barrel	amod
9	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Herrings	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 salt	case
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 barrel	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 salt	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ 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.

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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