Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…
Ok but be real, who gets half the kingdom?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, get · To what, where: kingdom
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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 | Ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 4 real | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 real | cc |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 real | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gets | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | parataxis |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 kingdom | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | half kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus |
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
Whoever gets three gold fruits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fruits | nummod |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fruits | compound |
| 5 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gets | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Whoever | three gold fruits | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Whoever carries the golden apples
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 carries | nsubj |
| 2 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 apples | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apples | amod |
| 5 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carries | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Whoever | the golden apples | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Whoever takes the three golden apples
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 apples | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 apples | nummod |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 apples | amod |
| 6 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Whoever | the three golden apples | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
Option 4
Whoever takes the three golden apples from the glass hill's top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 apples | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 apples | nummod |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 apples | amod |
| 6 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hill | compound |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 hill | case |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Whoever | the three golden apples | the glass hill's top | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from top=Initial_Location |
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/1491-pg503-part78/t12/