Test 10 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, p…

Yo, what does a bushel even mean, like the actual size?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean · To what, where: actual size

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bushel	det
6	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 size	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 size	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 size	det
12	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 size	amod
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support		the actual size					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

an old basket-sized measure for grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 measure	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 measure	amod
3	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sized	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 basket	punct
5	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 measure	amod
6	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 grain	case
8	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	size	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a large old measure of grain, roughly the size of a basket, used by farmers

The tree, 15 words

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	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 measure	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 measure	amod
4	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 grain	case
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 measure	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 size	punct
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	10 size	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 measure	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 basket	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 basket	det
13	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 measure	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 farmers	case
17	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a large old measure of grain and the size of a basket not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	measure			grain					nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

a large old measure of grain, roughly the size of a barrel, used by farmers

The tree, 15 words

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	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 measure	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 measure	amod
4	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 grain	case
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 measure	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 size	punct
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	10 size	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 measure	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 barrel	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 barrel	det
13	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 measure	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 farmers	case
17	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a large old measure of grain and the size of a barrel not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	measure			grain					nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

a heavy wooden box used for money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 box	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a heavy wooden box not said here				for money	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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