Test 8 · ★ · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples…

Why did he powder the nuts, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: powder · To what, where: nuts

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 680 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples at the palace, and the royal noses grow.» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 powder	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 powder	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 powder	nsubj
4	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nuts	det
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 powder	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 though	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 powder	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 powder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	powder	past · do-support	he	the nuts					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient

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

So nobody got suspicious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	nobody					suspicious property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

So it lasts longer, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 lasts	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lasts	nsubj
3	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 lasts	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasts	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	it					bro vocative; long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

To hide it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

To taste it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 taste	mark
2	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 taste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	to-infinitive		it					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

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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