Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58…

Dude, what did the youth cut open to stop the birds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, youth · What happens: do, cut, stop · To what, where: birds

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1561 «Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58: Dapplegrim climbs the cliff and rescues the Princess, then the King sets new tasks» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	nsubj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cut	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 open	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stop	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut	present	the youth		open property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	stop	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	the birds		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bird=Eventuality

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

the wool bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bags	det
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bags	compound
3	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the sacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sacks	det
2	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grain	det
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the corn sacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sacks	det
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sacks	compound
3	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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