Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

What did the King say when Cinderlad showed him the bread?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, Cinderlad · What happens: do, say, show · To what, where: bread, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	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 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 showed	advmod
7	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 showed	nsubj
8	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 showed	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bread	det
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 showed	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show	past	Cinderlad	the bread	King	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Topic

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

Well done, lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 done	advmod
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lad	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 done	punct
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle						well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Thou hast done well, so thou winst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 done	nsubj
2	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 done	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 winst	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 winst	advmod
7	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 winst	nsubj
8	winst	winst	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect	Thou					well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	winst		thou						tree rules

Option 3

Good, you win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	INTJ	_	4 win	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Good	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 win	nsubj
4	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	you						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thou hast watched faithfully, so you win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 hast	nsubj
2	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hast	xcomp
4	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	3 watched	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 win	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 win	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 win	nsubj
8	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	present	Thou		tree rules
2	watch	participle	Thou not said here	faithfully property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	win	present	you		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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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