Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three gi…

Proper, what does Sigurd want to do with Gullfaxi?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: want, do

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	6 want	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 Gullfaxi	case
10	Gullfaxi	Gullfaxi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	Sigurd					properly property	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here					with Gullfaxi	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

Ride him to the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the town			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to town=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ride him round the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the house			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme round house=Trajectory

Option 3

Ride him into the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the lake			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into lake=Trajectory

Option 4

Ride him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: 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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