Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

Wait, what did the elves want the skewer for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, elves · What happens: wait, want · To what, where: skewer

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elves	det
6	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skewer	det
9	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	7 want	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past · do-support	the elves	the skewer					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme skewer=Attribute

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

a ladder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ladder	det
2	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a tall maypole for their midsummer dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 maypole	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maypole	amod
3	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 dance	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dance	nmod:poss
6	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dance	compound
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maypole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance		their = they						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

a maypole to dance around on the green at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maypole	det
2	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dance	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dance	mark
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 dance	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 green	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 green	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dance	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance around	to-infinitive	a maypole			the green	night	around property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on green=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a maypole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maypole	det
2	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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