Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

No cap, what did the boy throw over the second horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: throw · To what, where: cap

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 throw	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 throw	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 throw	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	nsubj
8	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 horse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · do-support	the boy	no cap				over the second horse	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent what=Theme over horse=Destination

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

His bridle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bridle	nmod:poss
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

His bread for the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bread	nmod:poss
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bread	nmod

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

Option 3

His sword for fighting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sword	nmod:poss
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 fighting	case
4	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sword	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His steel for striking fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 steel	nmod:poss
2	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 striking	mark
4	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 steel	acl
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 striking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	gerund	His steel not said here	fire					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient

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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