Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9:…

who's the last one they ask for help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: last one

This is test 12 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 one	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ask	nsubj
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 help	case
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the last one					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	they	the last one not said here				for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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

the North Wind, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
2	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	conj

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

Option 2

the South Wind, he's cool, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
2	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cool	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cool	cop
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Wind	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					cool property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the West Wind, he knows everything, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
2	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knows	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Wind	acl:relcl
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 knows	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	he	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

Option 4

the West Wind, he knows everything about the castle and the way there, bro

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
2	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knows	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Wind	acl:relcl
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 knows	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 everything	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 way	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 castle	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 way	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bro	punct
16	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	he	everything				about the castle and the way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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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