Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

How'd he sell the hoops story to the kitchen-maid, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: sell · To what, where: hoops story, kitchen maid

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1573 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin tricks three one-eyed hags for magic gifts, then saves the Princess from the first Troll while Ritter Red takes the credit.» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sell	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	nsubj
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 story	compound
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 maid	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maid	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maid	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 kitchen	punct
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	4 sell	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	would	he	the hoops story	the kitchen maid				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Theme to maid=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

He said they fell off buckets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt
6	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall off	past	they	buckets					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

He said they fell off some buckets at home, and she believed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 buckets	det
7	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl:unmarked
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 believed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 believed	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 believed	nsubj
13	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 believed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall off	past	they	some buckets	home	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	believe	past	she	him = he		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He blamed it on the Troll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blamed	nsubj
2	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blamed	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 Troll	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Troll	det
6	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	He	it		the Troll			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

He said they fell off buckets while he was carrying water from the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt
6	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl:unmarked
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 carrying	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carrying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carrying	aux
10	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fell	advcl
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carrying	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 well	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 well	det
14	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall off	past	they	buckets		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	carry	past · progressive	he	water	the well	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location

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