Test 1 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, p…

Wait, how did the fish dude get his human body back, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, fish dude · What happens: wait, get, innit · To what, where: human body

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1656 «Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, pays the king's debt, and wins the troll's heart» 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	_	8 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dude	compound
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 body	amod
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past · do-support	the fish dude	dude's human body	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here		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 · ✓ the right answer

he said the troll's words after he remembered them

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 troll	det
4	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 troll	case
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 remembered	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remembered	nsubj
9	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remembered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	the troll's words	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	remember	past	he	words = word	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	word		the troll		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

he found a magic bowl of water

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bowl	det
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bowl	compound
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bowl	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	he	a magic bowl of water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Topic

Option 3

he waited for the sun to rise

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 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rise	mark
7	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waited	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	he					for the sun	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he kissed the fish

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 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	he	the fish					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Co-Agent

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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