Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three…

What did the King reckon nobody could do with the apple?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King, nobody · What happens: do, reckon

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1492 «Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three golden apples» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 do	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reckon	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 apple	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 apple	det
11	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the King		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	could	nobody	with the apple	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Show it up in the palace before the whole court and the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Show	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Show	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Show	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	10 court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 court	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 court	amod
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Show	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Princess	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 court	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	imperative	you not said here	it		the palace	before the whole court and the Princess		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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

Show it up in the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Show	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Show	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	imperative	you not said here	it		the palace			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3

Find the knight who won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Find	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 won	nsubj
5	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knight	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	the knight					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Topic
2	win	past	the knight						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Pick it up from the grass and show it to the whole court tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 show	cc
8	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 show	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 court	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 court	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 court	amod
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obl
14	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 court	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it		the grass			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	show	infinitive	you not said here	grass	the whole court tomorrow				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to court=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1492-pg503-part79/t8/