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title: what's a threshold anyway, is it like a door mat — Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's a threshold anyway, is it like a door mat Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1232 «Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth is left alone on an island and a strange girl marries him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…

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what's a threshold anyway, is it like a door mat

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** threshold · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** threshold

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1232 «Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth is left alone on an island and a strange girl marries him» 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/1232-pg3282-part33/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1232-pg3282-part33:t7:1
# text = what's a threshold anyway, is it like a door mat
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a threshold |  |  |  |  | like a door mat | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a threshold |  |  |  | anyway *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a heavy piece of stone placed under the doorway that people must step over when entering a house

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1232-pg3282-part33:t7:o1:1
# text = a heavy piece of stone placed under the doorway that people must step over when entering a house
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **step over** | must | the placed doorway |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund | the placed doorway *not said here* | a house |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wood bar at the bottom of a door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1232-pg3282-part33:t7:o2:1
# text = the wood bar at the bottom of a door
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the floor board in front of the entrance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1232-pg3282-part33:t7:o3:1
# text = the floor board in front of the entrance
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the bit of wood you step over at a door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1232-pg3282-part33:t7:o4:1
# text = the bit of wood you step over at a door
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	step	step	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step over** | present | you | the bit of wood |  | a door |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Trajectory |

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**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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