Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, thr…

test: what's up with the wooden shoes on the money?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: test · What happens: be · To what, where: money

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	9 shoes	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 shoes	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shoes	cop
5	up	up	ADV	_	9 shoes	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 shoes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoes	det
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shoes	amod
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 test	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 money	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 money	det
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoes	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	test and the wooden shoes			the money		with the wooden shoes	tree rules

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

he put them there because he thought nobody would dare to take it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 put	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 thought	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	advcl
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 dare	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dare	aux
10	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dare	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	he	them = they	there	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
2	think speech: other	past	he			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	dare	would	nobody			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	it		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

he hoped nobody would find it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 find	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hoped	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	he						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	find	would	nobody	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

he thought nobody would ever take it from the spot where he left it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 spot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spot	det
10	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 left	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spot	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	take	would	nobody	it	the spot	ever	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from spot=Initial_Location
3	leave	past	he	spot			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

he thought nobody would take it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	take	would	nobody	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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