Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

Bruv, what did the lad say was impossible?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 impossible	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lad	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 impossible	cop
9	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past		Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the lad not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the lad	impossible property	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

Rescue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Saving the Princess now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Saving	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Saving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	gerund		the Princess			now		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Setting the Princess free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Setting	obj
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Setting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	gerund		the Princess				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient princess=Result

Option 4

Freeing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freeing	free	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Freeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	gerund		her = she					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source

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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