Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

Wait, what did the Lord of the beasts hand him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Lord · What happens: wait, hand · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1545 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 42: the youth frees the princesses, wins a queen, and sets out to find Whiteland» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hand	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 hand	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hand	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lord	det
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hand	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 beasts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beasts	det
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Lord	nmod
10	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hand	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hand	past · do-support	the Lord of the beasts	him = he					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

a magic sledge with white reins and a bell tied to the front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sledge	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sledge	amod
3	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 reins	case
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reins	amod
6	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sledge	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bell	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bell	det
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reins	conj
10	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bell	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 front	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 front	det
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a bell not said here				to the front	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to front=Co-Patient

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

a pair of snow shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 shoes	case
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoes	compound
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod

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

Option 3

a pair of snow shoes that never sink in the deepest drift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 shoes	case
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoes	compound
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sink	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 sink	advmod
8	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shoes	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 drift	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 drift	det
11	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 drift	amod
12	drift	drift	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sink	present	snow shoes			the deepest drift			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a silver bell ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ring	amod
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	compound
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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