Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…

so who packed the man off to look for the son?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pack off, look · To what, where: man

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 packed	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 packed	nsubj
3	packed	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 packed	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	3 packed	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 packed	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 son	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 son	det
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 packed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack off	past			the man				vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Destination
2	look	to-infinitive						for the son	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for son=Theme

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

his wife, the old woman, who gave him a bag and a roll of tobacco to take

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bag	det
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 roll	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 roll	det
15	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bag	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 tobacco	case
17	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 roll	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	his wife	a bag and a roll of tobacco	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bag=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive	his wife not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	roll			tobacco		nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

his wife, the old woman, who had sent him off with a bag of food

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sent	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sent	aux
10	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sent	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 sent	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 bag	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bag	det
15	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 food	case
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bag	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past · perfect · passive		his wife				with a bag of food	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his wife, the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

his brother, the young boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	conj

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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