Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

Wait, what was the kitchen-maid's bother about, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: bother

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bother	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 bother	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bother	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maid	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maid	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 kitchen	punct
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bother	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 maid	case
10	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
11	about	about	ADV	_	13 mate	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 about	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bother	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the kitchen maid's bother				mate nmod	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Whether he got the hoops fairly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 got	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hoops	det
5	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj
6	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	3 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	the hoops				fairly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hoop=Stimulus

Option 2

The hoops' price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hoops	det
2	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 price	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 hoops	case
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

His pay

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 pay	nmod:poss
2	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay		His = he						nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Whether he'd lost the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 lost	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	he	the Princess					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality

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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