Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…

the prince's nose-girl has a nose three ells long, that's crazy, is that a real thing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nose girl, that · What happens: have, be · To what, where: nose, real thing

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girl	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 prince	case
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girl	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nose	det
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 ells	nummod
11	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 long	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 has	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crazy	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 crazy	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 crazy	cop
16	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 long	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thing	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	cop
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 thing	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the prince's nose girl	a nose		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
2	is	present	that		crazy property	tree rules
3	is a	present		a real thing		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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it's an old measure of length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 measure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 measure	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 measure	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 measure	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 measure	amod
7	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 length	case
9	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 measure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old measure				of length	tree rules

Option 2

nope, it's a mean joke too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
6	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joke	amod
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 joke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a mean joke					tree rules

Option 3

nah, it's an old measure of length that people used for cloth in the past

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 measure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 measure	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 measure	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 measure	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 measure	amod
7	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 length	case
9	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 measure	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 used	obj
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 measure	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 cloth	case
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 past	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 past	det
17	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old measure				of length	tree rules
2	use	past	people	a old measure		the past		for cloth	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Theme for cloth=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it's a real big nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 nose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nose	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 nose	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nose	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nose	amod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nose	amod
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a real big nose					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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