Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…
where was the gold house?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gold house · What happens: be
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1446 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper buys the magic mill for salt» 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 where | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gold house | where 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 · ← Mova's choice
On the hill top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 3 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | compound |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
By the sea-shore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shore | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
On a rocky sea-shore far from the village and the old mill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 3 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shore | amod |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shore | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sea | punct |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 village | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shore | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mill | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mill | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mill | amod |
| 14 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 village | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Near the river bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 bank | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bank | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bank | compound |
| 4 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1446-pg503-part33/t8/