Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with…

Mate, what was he, like, pretending to do with the bread knife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, pretend, do · To what, where: he

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1562 «Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with two tricks and a second horse» 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	5 he	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 he	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 he	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 he	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pretending	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pretending	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 pretending	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pretending	punct
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pretending	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 knife	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knife	det
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knife	compound
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 pretending	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		he		tree rules
2	pretend	gerund	he			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	he not said here		with the bread knife	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

cut the loaf in half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 loaf	det
3	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 half	case
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	the loaf		half			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loaf=Product

Option 2

eat the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bread	det
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the bread					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 3

clean the knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	imperative	you not said here	the knife					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient

Option 4

cut the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	the table					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset table=Product

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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