Test 14 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Good, so what's the last thing the foal asks him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Good last thing · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Good last thing, foal

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 thing	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thing	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asks	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 foal	det
10	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asks	nsubj
11	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asks	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Good last thing					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	the Good last thing		foal				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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

Dost thou hear anything now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 hear	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hear	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · do-support	thou	anything			now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 2

See anything?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 See	obj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 3

Can you see?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dost thou see anything now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 see	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 see	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · do-support	thou	anything			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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