Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

Mate, what's the ring actually for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: ring

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ring	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 ring	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 for	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	6 ring	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and the ring	the ring					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

Going home by wishing, as long as nobody names them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 names	csubj
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Going	advmod
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 wishing	mark
4	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Going	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 names	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 names	mark
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 names	nsubj
10	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 names	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	gerund			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wish	gerund				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	name	present	nobody	them = they	long property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Wishing for gold and silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wishing	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silver	cc
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	gerund						for gold and silver	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for gold=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Going home by wishing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Going	advmod
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 wishing	mark
4	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Going	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund						home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wish	gerund							vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Making wishes come true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wishes	amod
2	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	come	infinitive	Making wishes					true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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