Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

what did the poor bro cover his house with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poor bro · What happens: cover · To what, where: house

This is test 7 · ★ 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	6 cover	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cover	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bro	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bro	amod
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cover	nsubj
6	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cover	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	8 house	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cover	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · do-support	the poor bro	bro's house					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Plates of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plates	nmod

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

Option 2

Thick plates of gold and silver from the rich brother's cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plates	amod
2	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plates	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 silver	cc
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	12 cellar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brother	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cellar	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 brother	case
12	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plates	nmod

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

Option 3

Heavy plates of pure gold nailed to every wall and beam of the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plates	amod
2	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
4	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gold	amod
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plates	nmod
6	nailed	nail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 plates	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nailed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beam	cc
11	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wall	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 roof	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roof	det
14	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beam	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nail	participle		Heavy plates of pure gold not said here				to every wall and beam of the roof	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to wall=Co-Patient
2	beam			the roof					nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Sheets of silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 silver	case
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sheets	nmod

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

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