Test 2 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, thr…

test: wait, why did the troll bonk his head on a beam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, troll · What happens: wait, bonk · To what, where: head, beam

This is test 2 · ★ 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	3 wait	compound
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bonk	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 bonk	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bonk	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 troll	det
8	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bonk	nsubj
9	bonk	bonk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bonk	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 beam	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 beam	det
14	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bonk	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bonk	past · do-support	the troll	troll's head		a beam			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient on beam=Location

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 right answer

to make broth without buying beef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 buying	mark
5	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 make	advcl
6	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		broth					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset broth=Product
2	buy	gerund		beef					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beef=Theme

Option 2

to hide a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		a cow					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

Option 3

to get some fish for the stew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 stew	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stew	det
7	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		some fish				for the stew	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for stew=Source

Option 4

to fix the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fix	mark
2	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	to-infinitive		the pot					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pot=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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