Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9:…

what did the old woman use her nose for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: use · To what, where: nose

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1512 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9: Halvor's parents know him, then the Princesses vanish and he sets out again» 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 use	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 nose	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	the old woman	woman's nose					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

combing her hair, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 combing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 combing	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 combing	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	gerund		her hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 2

hanging the pot, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pot	det
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hanging	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 hanging	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 hanging	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund		the pot					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

stirring the fire, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lol	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stirring	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 stirring	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	gerund		the fire					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer

Option 4

sniffing, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sniffing	sniff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sniffing	punct
3	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 sniffing	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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