Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…
Which of the three sisters loved Halvor most sincerely?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: love · To what, where: Halvor
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 loved | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sisters | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sisters | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sisters | nummod |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 loved | obl |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 loved | obj |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 sincerely | advmod |
| 9 | sincerely | sincerely | ADV | _ | 6 loved | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 loved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Halvor | of the three sisters; sincerely 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
Middle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The middle sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sister | det |
| 2 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The youngest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Eldest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 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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