Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…

Was the girl's pad full of snail-shell fountains, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: pad

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pad	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 girl	case
5	pad	pad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 real	nsubj
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pad	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 fountains	case
8	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shell	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snail	punct
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fountains	compound
11	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the girl's pad					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 · ← Mova's choice

Yup, from rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rocks	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 rocks	case
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Yup	conj

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

Option 2

Nah, they came from mussel shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 shells	case
6	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shells	compound
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they			mussel shells			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shell=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, they spouted from snail shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spouted	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spouted	nsubj
4	spouted	spout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 shells	case
6	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shells	compound
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spout	past	they	Yup		snail shells			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from shell=Source

Option 4

Yup, they sprayed from pearl bowls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprayed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprayed	nsubj
4	sprayed	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bowls	case
6	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bowls	compound
7	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sprayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	past	Yup			pearl bowls			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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