Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

why did the skipper want the mill?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: skipper · What happens: want · To what, where: mill

This is test 9 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skipper	det
4	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mill	det
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the skipper	the mill					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mill=Theme

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

To grind salt for his crew so that they would never sail again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grind	mark
2	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grind	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 crew	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crew	nmod:poss
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grind	obl
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 sail	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sail	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sail	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 sail	advmod
12	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grind	advcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 sail	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	to-infinitive		salt				for his crew	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent salt=Product for crew=Beneficiary
2	not sail	would	they				again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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

To make salt, no sailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sailing	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sailing	det
6	sailing	sailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 salt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		salt and no sailing					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salt=Product

Option 3

To catch more fish at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		more fish		sea			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent fish=Theme at sea=Asset

Option 4

To grind gold for trade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grind	mark
2	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grind	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 trade	case
5	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	to-infinitive		gold				for trade	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gold=Material for trade=Beneficiary

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