Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

Did Minnikin just scrounge loads of gold then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: scrounge · To what, where: Minnikin

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Minnikin	aux
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scrounge	obl
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 scrounge	advmod
4	scrounge	scrounge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scrounge	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loads	nmod
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 scrounge	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scrounge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrounge	present		Minnikin			then		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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

He grabbed a sack of coins

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 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 coins	case
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	He	a sack of coins					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He stole a box of jewels

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 jewels	case
6	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 box	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He	a box of jewels					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He took gold and silver hoops

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hoops	cc
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hoops	compound
6	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	gold and silver hoops					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 4

Nah, just rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 rings	advmod
4	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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