Test 2 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…

Wait, what even is a bushel, like a bag of crisps?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: bushel

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Wait	obl
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 bushel	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bushel	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bushel	det
7	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bag	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 bag	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bag	det
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 crisps	case
13	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bag	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					like a bag of crisps	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a bushel					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

A tub for holding sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tub	det
2	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 holding	mark
4	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tub	acl
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	a tub not said here	sweets					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme

Option 2

A box for storing gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 storing	mark
4	storing	store	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 box	acl
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	compound
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 storing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	gerund	a box not said here	gold coins					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Like a sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 sack	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sack	det
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A big old measure for grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 measure	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 measure	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 measure	amod
4	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 grain	case
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 measure	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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