Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th…
Like, was the coach still waiting when he went in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coach, he · What happens: be, wait, go in · To what, where: coach
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» 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 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 coach | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coach | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coach | det |
| 5 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 waiting | advmod |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 coach | acl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 went | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 coach | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the coach | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the coach not said here | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in | past | he | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
nah, gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 gone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, waiting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 waiting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, he took the horses out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | he | the horses | out property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he put the horses back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 put | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | past | he | the horses | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Goal |
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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