Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

Lol, what did the Giant's wife want Ring to do all day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, Ring · What happens: do, want · To what, where: Ring

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	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	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Giant	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the Giant's wife	Ring		tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ring not said here		day	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

help her with the house, the herds and the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 help	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 help	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 herds	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 herds	det
8	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 help	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fields	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fields	det
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 herds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here		her = she			with the house; the herds and the fields obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary with house=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

help her in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 help	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here		her = she	the house			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 3

sweep the long hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweep	sweep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hall	amod
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sweep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	imperative	you not said here	the long hall					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory

Option 4

help her in the house all day and night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 help	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 help	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 help	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 night	cc
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here		her = she	the house	day		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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