Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a…

Hans was a ring and a man, so who was the dog and cow really?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hans, ring · What happens: be · To what, where: ring, dog

This is test 11 · ★ 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ring	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ring	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 man	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dog	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 dog	advmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dog	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dog	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cow	cc
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dog	conj
16	really	really	ADV	_	13 dog	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Hans	a ring and a man and the dog and cow					tree rules
2	is a	past	a ring and a man and the dog and cow	the dog and cow					tree rules

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

The king and his cruel soldiers, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soldiers	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 soldiers	nmod:poss
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldiers	amod
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 king	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
8	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 king	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The hill-man, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 hill	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	4 man	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The old man, probably

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 man	advmod

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

Option 4

The servant girl, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	compound
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 girl	punct
5	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	3 girl	advmod

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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