Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…
wait, the girl wakes up in a dark wood with her old bag, the whole thing's so sad, right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, girl, whole thing · What happens: wait, wake up, be · To what, where: dark wood
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wakes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wakes | nsubj |
| 5 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 wakes | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wood | amod |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wakes | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bag | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bag | nmod:poss |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bag | amod |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wakes | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sad | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sad | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sad | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 sad | advmod |
| 21 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wakes | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sad | punct |
| 23 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 21 sad | discourse |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wake up | present | the girl | a dark wood | with girl's old bag | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bag=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is | present | the whole thing | sad 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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, she's alone and cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 alone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alone | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 alone | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 alone | cop |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cold | cc |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 alone | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | she not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, she's fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | fine property | tree rules |
Option 3
yeah, she's cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | cold property | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, she's hungry and alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hungry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 alone | cc |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hungry | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | she not said here | 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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