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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mint | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mint | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | compound |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mint | compound |
| 5 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 giving | mark |
| 7 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 mint | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giving | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drink | det |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giving | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mint | 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
Option 1
Nah, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, she was well mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 mean | advmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | 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
Yeah, she was well kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | advmod |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | 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
Yeah, kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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