Test 6 · ★ · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

Who did the Princess say was most worthy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 worthy	cop
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 worthy	advmod
8	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past		worthy 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

The lad who fought the wicked King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lad	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 King	amod
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	the lad	the wicked King					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The guy who saved them from the Trolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guy	acl:relcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Trolls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Trolls	det
8	Trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	the guy	them = they		the Trolls			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from troll=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The man who had walked for days and then saved every one of them from the Trolls

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saved	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 walked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	aux
5	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 man	acl:relcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saved	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 saved	advmod
10	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saved	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 Trolls	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Trolls	det
17	Trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	the man				day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	past	the man	every one of them		the Trolls	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from troll=Source

Option 4

The guy who saved all three princesses from the Trolls in the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guy	acl:relcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 princesses	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 princesses	nummod
7	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saved	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Trolls	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Trolls	det
10	Trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saved	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 north	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 north	det
13	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	the guy	all three princesses		the Trolls		in the north	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent princess=Theme from troll=Source

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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