Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the secon…

Innit wild that the Princess said a bird dropped a bone down the chimney?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess, bird · What happens: say, drop · To what, where: bone, chimney · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1575 «Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the second Princess from the Troll, brews the deadly ale, then is struck by his brother» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wild	compound
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wild	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	nsubj
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bone	det
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 chimney	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chimney	det
14	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Princess						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drop	past	a bird	a bone		the chimney			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme down chimney=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was totally making it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 making	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 making	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 making	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 making	aux
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 making	advmod
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 making	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 making	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · progressive	she	it				totally property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 2

yeah, she was totally making it up to scare the troll into hiding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 making	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 making	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 making	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 making	aux
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 making	advmod
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 making	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 making	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 scare	mark
10	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 making	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 troll	det
12	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scare	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 hiding	case
14	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · progressive	she	it				totally property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
2	scare	to-infinitive	she not said here	the troll		hiding			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus troll=Experiencer

Option 3

yeah, she was just joking around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 joking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 joking	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joking	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 joking	advmod
6	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	around	around	ADV	_	6 joking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke around speech: other	past · progressive	she					around property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, a bird actually dropped a bone down the chimney while she was sewing

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 dropped	advmod
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 chimney	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chimney	det
11	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 sewing	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sewing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sewing	aux
15	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dropped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	a bird	a bone		the chimney		actually property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme down chimney=Destination
2	sew	past · progressive	bird						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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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