Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…
and the east wind is her ride, so does he just blow her fast?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: east wind, he · What happens: be, blow · To what, where: ride, her
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ride | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 3 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wind | compound |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ride | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ride | cop |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blow | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ride | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 blow | advmod |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 blow | aux |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 blow | nsubj |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 blow | advmod |
| 13 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 blow | obj |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 blow | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 blow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the east wind | her ride | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow | present · do-support | he | her = she | fast property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, they zoomed super fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 zoomed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 zoomed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 zoomed | nsubj |
| 4 | zoomed | zoom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 zoomed | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 zoomed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zoom | past | they | fast, super property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
nah, they just walked slow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 walked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | they | slow property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, very fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fast | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 fast | advmod |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, they flew all the way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 way | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | they | all way | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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