Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the gol…
where did the widow take the baby to calm it down?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: widow · What happens: take, calm down · To what, where: baby
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1534 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the golden hemlock and the burnt reindeer skin» 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 take | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 widow | det |
| 4 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 calm | mark |
| 9 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 calm | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 calm | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | the widow | the baby | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 2 | calm down | to-infinitive | the widow not said here | baby | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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 right answer
to the marsh in the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 marsh | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 marsh | det |
| 3 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marsh | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
deep into the snowy mountains beyond the village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 5 mountains | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountains | det |
| 4 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mountains | amod |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mountains | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
to the cottage in the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 cottage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cottage | det |
| 3 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hills | det |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cottage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
back to the palace kitchens by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 kitchens | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 palace | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kitchens | obl |
| 5 | kitchens | kitchen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kitchens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kitchen | present | to the palace; by the river | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1534-pg540-part31/t11/