Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

Wait, how did the little ship get big, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, little ship · What happens: wait, do, get

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ship	amod
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 big	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	9 big	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here		tree rules
3	get	present	the little ship	big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He waved his hands at it

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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waved	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	his hands		it			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

He stuck one foot in, then wobbled and stuck the other in it too

The tree, 14 words

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 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 foot	nummod
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuck	obj
5	in	in	ADV	_	2 stuck	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wobbled	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 wobbled	advmod
8	wobbled	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stuck	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stuck	cc
10	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wobbled	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuck	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stuck	obl
15	too	too	ADV	_	10 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stick	past	He	one foot			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	wobble	past	He not said here			then	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stick	past	He not said here	the other	foot		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Theme in it=Destination

Option 3

He stuck both feet in it and it swelled up huge

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 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 feet	det
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuck	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stuck	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swelled	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swelled	nsubj
9	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stuck	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 swelled	compound:prt
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 swelled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	He	both feet		it			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in it=Destination
2	swell up	past	it					huge property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He stuck both feet in it

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 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 feet	det
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuck	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	He	both feet		it			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in it=Destination

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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