Test 1 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9:…

bro, what did the girls ditch when Halvor walked in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls, Halvor · What happens: do, ditch, walk in

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1512 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9: Halvor's parents know him, then the Princesses vanish and he sets out again» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girls	det
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ditch	nsubj
7	ditch	ditch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 walked	advmod
9	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ditch	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 walked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past		bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ditch	present	the girls		tree rules
3	walk in	past	Halvor		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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

their shawls, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shawls	nmod:poss
2	shawls	shawl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shawls	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

their kirtles and shawls and stuff, lol, they were so fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kirtles	nmod:poss
2	kirtles	kirtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shawls	cc
4	shawls	shawl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kirtles	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stuff	cc
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kirtles	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kirtles	punct
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	13 fast	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lol	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fast	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fast	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 kirtles	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	shawls = shawl					fast property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

their kirtles, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kirtles	nmod:poss
2	kirtles	kirtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kirtles	punct
4	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 kirtles	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

all their kirtles and their petticoats and shoes, lol, they bolted out the door

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 kirtles	det:predet
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 kirtles	nmod:poss
3	kirtles	kirtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bolted	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 petticoats	cc
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 petticoats	nmod:poss
6	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kirtles	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shoes	cc
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 petticoats	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kirtles	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	13 bolted	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bolted	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bolted	nsubj
13	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 bolted	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bolted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt out	past	their kirtles and kirtles's petticoats and shoes	the door					vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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