Test 11 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

so the man thinks it's a hobgoblin or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, it · What happens: think, be · To what, where: hobgoblin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1519 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a man's ox with a shoe and a trick» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 thinks	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinks	nsubj
4	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hobgoblin	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hobgoblin	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hobgoblin	det
8	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinks	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hobgoblin	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the man						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a hobgoblin					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

a hobgoblin or some kind of witchcraft from the old woman's house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hobgoblin	det
2	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 kind	cc
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hobgoblin	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 witchcraft	case
7	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	13 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 woman	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hobgoblin	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a hobgoblin or witchcraft or maybe a trick played by the robbers in the wood

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hobgoblin	det
2	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 witchcraft	cc
4	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hobgoblin	conj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 trick	cc
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	8 trick	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trick	det
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hobgoblin	conj
9	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hobgoblin	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 robbers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 robbers	det
12	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 played	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle		a hobgoblin or witchcraft or a trick not said here		the wood		by the robbers	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a troll or a bogeyman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 bogeyman	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bogeyman	det
5	bogeyman	bogeyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 troll	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a hobgoblin or witchcraft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hobgoblin	det
2	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 witchcraft	cc
4	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hobgoblin	conj

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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