Test 2 · ★ · Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd…

Mate, what did Gram do to that iron block, proper?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gram · What happens: do · To what, where: Mate

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1584 «Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd kills Fafnir, learns the birds' speech, and wakes Brynhild» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Gram	Gram	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 block	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 block	det
9	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 block	amod
10	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proper	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 block	amod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Gram	Mate				to that iron block	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

Broke it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 2

Cut it apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cut	obj
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	1 Cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	it				apart property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3

Bent it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bent	bent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bent	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Split it in two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Split	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 two	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here	it		two			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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