Test 10 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…
is the west wind stronger than the east wind, like seriously?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stronger | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 3 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wind | compound |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stronger | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 wind | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 8 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wind | compound |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stronger | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seriously | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 seriously | case |
| 12 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 5 stronger | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stronger | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | than the east wind; the west wind obl:unmarked; strong 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
no, they're equal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 equal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 equal | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 equal | cop |
| 5 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | they | equal property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he's stronger, so they ask him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stronger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stronger | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stronger | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stronger | cop |
| 5 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 ask | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stronger | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | they | him = he | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 3
nah, the east is stronger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 stronger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 east | det |
| 4 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stronger | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stronger | cop |
| 6 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the east | strong property | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, he's weaker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 weaker | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 weaker | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weaker | cop |
| 5 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | weak property | tree rules |
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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