Test 11 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, thr…

test: what did the old man want to show at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man, test · What happens: want, show · To what, where: test, end

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1638 «Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, three lost sacks, one lesson he never learns» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 test	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 show	mark
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the old man	test					tree rules
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	test not said here				at the end		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 fish he caught in the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the fish			the lake			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

what he had learned from the trolls and his wife's cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 learned	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learned	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	aux
4	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 trolls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trolls	det
7	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cow	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cow	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 wife	case
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · perfect	he			the trolls			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Topic from troll=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

what he had learned from the trolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 learned	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learned	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	aux
4	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 trolls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trolls	det
7	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · perfect	he			the trolls			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Topic from troll=Source

Option 4

what he had learned at the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 learned	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learned	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	aux
4	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · perfect	he			the lake			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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