Test 1 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 17: the youth tricks t…
yo, did the Master Thief really snag the joint right under the Governor's nose?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Master Thief · What happens: do, snag · To what, where: joint, nose
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1520 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 17: the youth tricks the Governor with three hares and steals the roast joint» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Thief | det |
| 5 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Thief | compound |
| 6 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 snag | nsubj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 snag | advmod |
| 8 | snag | snag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 joint | det |
| 10 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snag | obj |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 nose | advmod |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 nose | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Governor | det |
| 14 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 nose | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Governor | case |
| 16 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snag | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | snag | present | the Master Thief | the joint | the Governor's nose | 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 right answer
Yeah, dude, he bagged it while everyone was chasing some hare, mental
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dude | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dude | punct |
| 3 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bagged | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dude | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bagged | nsubj |
| 6 | bagged | bag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bagged | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 chasing | mark |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 chasing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chasing | aux |
| 11 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bagged | advcl |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 hare | det |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chasing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mental | punct |
| 15 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bagged | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bag | past | dude | it | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chase | past · progressive | everyone | some hare | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, dude, totally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dude | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dude | punct |
| 3 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dude | punct |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 3 dude | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, dude, he bagged it from the cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dude | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dude | punct |
| 3 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bagged | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dude | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bagged | nsubj |
| 6 | bagged | bag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bagged | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 cook | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cook | det |
| 10 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bagged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bag | past | dude | it | the cook | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he got caught chasing some hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 caught | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux:pass |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 caught | xcomp |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 hare | det |
| 8 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chasing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chase | gerund | some hare | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
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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