Test 13 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three gi…

Innit, what did Sigurd think of the stick, stone and twig?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: think

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 think	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 think	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stone	punct
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 twig	cc
13	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	Sigurd					of the stick and stone and twig; Innit vocative	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

Gifts the wise old giant left for the young prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gifts	gift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gifts	obj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 giant	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 prince	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prince	amod
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift	present		the wise old giant					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
2	leave	participle		the wise old giant not said here				for the young prince	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for prince=Recipient

Option 2

Broken little tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tools	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tools	amod
3	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Strange magic items he thought were fine and precious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 items	amod
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 items	compound
3	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fine	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 items	acl:relcl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 precious	cc
9	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he	Strange magic items not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot item=Theme
2	is	past	Strange magic items		fine property	tree rules
3	be		Strange magic items not said here			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wretched dried-up things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 things	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 dried	compound:prt
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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