Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a…
Wait, so the hill-man got squashed by a rock, right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, rock · What happens: wait, squash · To what, where: hill man
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 squashed | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 squashed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hill | punct |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 squashed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 squashed | aux:pass |
| 9 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 squashed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 squashed | punct |
| 14 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 Wait | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | 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 | squash | past · passive | a rock | the hill man | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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
Yeah, rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 rock | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rock | punct |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, a big loose stone fell on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 5 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a big loose stone | on him = he | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
Option 3
Nah, he fell off a cliff and drowned in the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 fell | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cliff | det |
| 7 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drowned | cc |
| 9 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drowned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | past | he | a cliff | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | drown | participle | he not said here | the river | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a loose stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 4 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stone | amod |
| 5 | stone | stone | 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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