Test 1 · ★ · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…
Wait, so Halvor swapped his horse for like boots?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Halvor · What happens: wait, swap · To what, where: horse
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swapped | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 swapped | advmod |
| 4 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swapped | nsubj |
| 5 | swapped | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swapped | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 boots | case |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 boots | case |
| 10 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swapped | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swap | past | Halvor | Halvor's horse | for boots | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for boot=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he swapped it for boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 swapped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swapped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swapped | nsubj |
| 4 | swapped | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swapped | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 boots | case |
| 7 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | past | he | it | for boots | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for boot=Co-Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yep, magic boots that go mad fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 boots | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boots | amod |
| 4 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boots | acl:relcl |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | xcomp |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | magic boots | fast, mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nope, just boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 boots | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 boots | advmod |
| 4 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, he got a sword instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | a sword | instead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=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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