Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff…
What did the troll-witch get, like the worst ever?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: troll witch · What happens: do, get · To what, where: troll witch
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1445 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff is tricked into chasing a calf all night, and at last the wedding is held» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 4 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 witch | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 troll | punct |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 witch | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ever | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 worst | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 worst | det |
| 11 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 ever | obl |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 did | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the troll witch | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | present | the troll witch not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Burned at the stake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 stake | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stake | det |
| 4 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Burned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | participle | the stake | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stake=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Sent away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Sent | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | participle | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Torn apart by horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 1 Torn | advmod |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 horses | case |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Torn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear apart | participle | by horses; apart property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by horse=Trajectory |
Option 4
Locked up in a tower, and the horses were sent back to the stable
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Locked | compound:prt |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tower | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tower | det |
| 5 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Locked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horses | det |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Locked | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 stable | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stable | det |
| 15 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock up | participle | a tower | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | send back | past · passive | the horses | the stable | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to stable=Destination |
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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