Test 2 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…
wait his mate just sends him back for a knife and jets??
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, send back · To what, where: mate, him
This is test 2 · ★ 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sends | advmod |
| 5 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sends | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 sends | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 knife | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knife | det |
| 10 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jets | cc |
| 12 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 knife | conj |
| 13 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | his mate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send back | present | you not said here | him = he | for a knife and jets | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he forgot it at the hut
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 forgot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgot | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | he | it | the hut | tree rules |
Option 2
nope, by accident
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 accident | case |
| 4 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nope | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
no, the knife just slipped away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 slipped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knife | det |
| 4 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slipped | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 slipped | advmod |
| 6 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 slipped | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip away | past | the knife | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yep, dropped the knife on purpose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 dropped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 purpose | case |
| 7 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the knife | purpose | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Theme on purpose=Destination |
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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