Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…
So the eagle came late and still knew nothing about Whiteland? Epic fail.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eagle · What happens: come, know · To what, where: nothing
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1545 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 42: the youth frees the princesses, wins a queen, and sets out to find Whiteland» 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
Sentence 1: So the eagle came late and still knew nothing about Whiteland?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 knew | advmod |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 knew | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 Whiteland | case |
| 11 | Whiteland | Whiteland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the eagle | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the eagle not said here | nothing | still | about Whiteland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: Epic fail.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fail | amod |
| 2 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fail | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
yep, ten years and some cake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 years | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cake | cc |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 cake | det |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yep, ten whole years and zero clues about Whiteland anywhere in the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 years | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clues | cc |
| 7 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 clues | nummod |
| 8 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 years | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 anywhere | case |
| 10 | Whiteland | Whiteland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 anywhere | nsubj |
| 11 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 clues | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 north | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 north | det |
| 14 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anywhere | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nope, they flew to the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | they | to the sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yep, ten whole years and zero clues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 years | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clues | cc |
| 7 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 clues | nummod |
| 8 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 years | 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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