Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

Who had to do the actual head chopping, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: have, do · To what, where: actual head chopping

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chopping	det
6	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chopping	amod
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chopping	compound
8	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past							tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive		the actual head chopping					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chopping=Eventuality

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 Foal did it, in the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Foal	det
2	Foal	Foal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yard	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Foal	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cinderlad, down in the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stable	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	6 stable	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stable	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stable	det
6	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cinderlad	appos

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

Option 3

A servant, out in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 out	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 out	punct
4	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 out	obl

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

Option 4

The Troll, grimly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Troll	det
2	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Troll	punct
4	grimly	grimly	ADV	_	2 Troll	advmod

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

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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