Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…
so they build a whole house overnight?? that's wicked
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, that · What happens: build, be · To what, where: whole house
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 build | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 build | nsubj |
| 3 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wicked | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | obj |
| 7 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 3 build | advmod |
| 8 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 wicked | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wicked | cop |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | they | a whole house | overnight property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | wicked property | 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 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, they put up the frame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 put | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 frame | det |
| 7 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | past | they | the frame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent frame=Goal |
Option 2
nah, just walls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 walls | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 walls | advmod |
| 4 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, they did it fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | they | it | fast property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, doors and windows all done
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 doors | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 doors | punct |
| 3 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 windows | cc |
| 5 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 doors | conj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 done | advmod |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 doors | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | doors and windows not said here | all property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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