Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

What did the brothers reckon Cinderlad would be good for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers, Cinderlad · What happens: do, reckon, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 good	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 good	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 good	cop
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckon	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the brothers		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	Cinderlad	good property	tree rules

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

Nothing much at all, just poking the ashes all day in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	much	much	ADV	_	1 Nothing	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 much	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 poking	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 poking	advmod
7	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Nothing	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ashes	det
9	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 poking	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poking	obl:unmarked
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 kitchen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kitchen	det
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	gerund		the ashes		the kitchen	day		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme

Option 2

Only sweeping the hearth floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 sweeping	advmod
2	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
4	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floor	compound
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sweeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund		the hearth floor					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing much, just poking the ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poking	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 poking	advmod
5	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Nothing	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ashes	det
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	gerund		the ashes					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme

Option 4

Nothing much, just poking the ashes and doing nothing useful at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 much	nsubj
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poking	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 poking	advmod
5	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 much	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ashes	det
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poking	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doing	cc
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 poking	conj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 doing	obj
11	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 doing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	gerund		the ashes					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
2	do	gerund		nothing		all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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