Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th…
Did the attorney get well-nigh beaten up by that door?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: door · What happens: do, beat up · To what, where: attorney
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beaten | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 attorney | det |
| 3 | attorney | attorney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 beaten | aux:pass |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 beaten | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 7 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 8 beaten | advmod |
| 8 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 beaten | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beaten | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 beaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | that door not said here | the attorney | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attorney=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | beat up | present · passive | that door | nigh, well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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
yeah, he was stuck in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuck | cop |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | it | stuck property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, nearly beaten to death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 beaten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 beaten | advmod |
| 4 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beaten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | participle | to death; nearly property | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V PP ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient to death=Co-Patient |
Option 3
nah, he just got a bump
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bump | det |
| 7 | bump | bump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | a bump | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bump=Stimulus |
Option 4
nah, not at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 all | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 all | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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