--- title: Was the servant girl mint for giving the horse a drink? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the servant girl mint for giving the horse a drink? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1199-pg3027-part65/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1199-pg3027-part65/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a… Was the servant girl mint for giving the horse a drink? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl mint · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** girl mint, drink, horse This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1199-pg3027-part65/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t3:1 # text = Was the servant girl mint for giving the horse a drink? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the girl mint | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | gerund | the girl mint *not said here* | a drink | the horse | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient drink=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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Nah, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t3:o1:1 # text = Nah, mate 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Nah, she was well mean ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t3:o2:1 # text = Nah, she was well mean 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | past | she | | | | | well *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, she was well kind ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t3:o3:1 # text = Yeah, she was well kind 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | she | | | | | kind, well *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, kind ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:t3:o4:1 # text = Yeah, kind 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 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. 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