Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

Bro, what was the last errand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: last errand

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 errand	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 errand	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 errand	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 errand	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 errand	amod
7	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro and the last errand	the last errand					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

a pot that sings over eight kingdoms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sings	nsubj
4	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pot	acl:relcl
5	over	over	ADV	_	6 eight	advmod
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kingdoms	nummod
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	a pot	eight kingdoms					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=Theme

Option 2

a bell that rings over seven kingdoms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rings	nsubj
4	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bell	acl:relcl
5	over	over	ADV	_	6 seven	advmod
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kingdoms	nummod
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	a bell	seven kingdoms					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=Theme

Option 3

a lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a coverlet that sounds over eight kingdoms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coverlet	det
2	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sounds	nsubj
4	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 coverlet	acl:relcl
5	over	over	ADV	_	6 eight	advmod
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kingdoms	nummod
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sounds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	a coverlet	eight kingdoms					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=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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