Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

What did the King do for Ritter Red, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: do · To what, where: Ritter Red

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 Red	case
7	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Red	compound
8	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proper	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Red	amod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	do	present	the King	Ritter Red					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=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 right answer

Sat him at his right hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sat	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 hand	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		him = he		his right hand			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme at hand=Location

Option 2

Gave him rank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	iobj
3	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		rank	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rank=Theme

Option 3

Gave him gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	iobj
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		gold	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gold=Theme

Option 4

Named him the royal champion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Named	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 champion	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 champion	amod
5	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		him = he				the royal champion obl	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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