Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

Who's the kitchen-maid's bestie, the one who spills all the tea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, spill · To what, where: bestie, tea

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 bestie	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bestie	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maid	det
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maid	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 kitchen	punct
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestie	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 maid	case
8	bestie	bestie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestie	appos
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 spills	nsubj
13	spills	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	acl:relcl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 tea	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tea	det
16	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spills	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bestie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the kitchen maid's bestie					tree rules
2	spill	present	the one	all tea					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme

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 laundry-maid next door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
2	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 laundry	punct
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Her friend the stable-boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
4	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 stable	punct
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The kitchen-maid herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 kitchen	punct
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 maid	nmod

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

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