Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…

wait what did the sisters rule, like what's their deal?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, be · To what, where: sisters rule

This is test 9 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rule	det
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rule	compound
6	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deal	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 deal	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 deal	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 deal	cop
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 deal	nmod:poss
12	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	do	past		the sisters rule		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Eventuality
3	is	present			like their deal	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

beasts, fishes and birds, one each, with the first sister ruling over all the land creatures

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fishes	punct
3	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beasts	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 birds	cc
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beasts	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 beasts	appos
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sister	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 sister	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sister	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 sister	amod
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 beasts	conj
14	ruling	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sister	acl
15	over	over	ADP	_	19 creatures	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 creatures	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 creatures	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 creatures	compound
19	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ruling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	gerund	the first sister not said here			all land creatures			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

birds, beasts and fish, split up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 split	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beasts	punct
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 birds	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fish	cc
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 birds	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 split	punct
7	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 split	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split up	participle · passive		birds and beasts and fish					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

beasts, fishes and birds, one each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fishes	punct
3	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beasts	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 birds	cc
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beasts	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4

beasts, fishes and birds, one each, and the old one had the beasts plus the wood

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fishes	punct
3	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beasts	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 birds	cc
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beasts	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 beasts	appos
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beasts	det
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	19 wood	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beasts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	beasts and fishes and birds	the beasts plus the wood					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient

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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