Test 1 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three gi…

Like, what did the first giantess want to do to Sigurd tonight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first giantess · What happens: do, want, sigurd

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 715 «Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three giantesses, then finds the horse Gullfaxi and the sword Gunnfjoder» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	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	7 giantess	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 giantess	amod
7	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Sigurd	case
12	Sigurd	sigurd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 do	conj
13	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Sigurd	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	want	present	the first giantess		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the first giantess not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sigurd	infinitive	the first giantess not said here	tonight	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

Cook him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Tie him to a chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tie	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 chair	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chair	det
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	imperative	you not said here	him = he				to a chair	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to chair=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Put him in the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the pot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pot=Destination

Option 4

Burn him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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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