Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…
Innit, how much salt went in the porridge?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: go · To what, where: porridge
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 salt | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 salt | amod |
| 5 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Innit | appos |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 porridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porridge | det |
| 9 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Innit | the porridge | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in porridge=Location |
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
a whole bushel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bushel | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bushel | amod |
| 3 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a whole bushel and the entire barrel of brine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bushel | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bushel | amod |
| 3 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 barrel | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 barrel | det |
| 6 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 barrel | amod |
| 7 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bushel | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 brine | case |
| 9 | brine | brine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barrel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
half a bushel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 bushel | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bushel | det |
| 3 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a whole bushel, poured straight into the pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bushel | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bushel | amod |
| 3 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 poured | punct |
| 5 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bushel | acl |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 pot | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poured | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | participle | a whole bushel not said here | the pot | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pot=Location |
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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