Test 10 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

Fr, what did the Giant say he could never do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, Giant · What happens: do, say, not do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giant	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Fr	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Giant	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	could	Fr	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

break his word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 word	nmod:poss
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here	his word					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient
2	word		his = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

cheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

sell the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	the boy					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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