Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…
Wait, the third Troll had nine heads? That's actually sus.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, third Troll, That · What happens: wait, have, be · To what, where: nine heads
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Wait, the third Troll had nine heads?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Troll | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Troll | amod |
| 5 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 heads | nummod |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the third Troll | nine heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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.
Sentence 2: That's actually sus.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sus | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sus | cop |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 4 sus | advmod |
| 4 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | actually, suspect property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
fr, nine heads and nine rods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heads | punct |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 heads | nummod |
| 4 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 fr | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rods | cc |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 rods | nummod |
| 7 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 fr | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
fr, nine heads and nine rods, and each rod was tipped with fire
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heads | punct |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 heads | nummod |
| 4 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 fr | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rods | cc |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 rods | nummod |
| 7 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heads | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tipped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tipped | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 rod | det |
| 11 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tipped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tipped | aux:pass |
| 13 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 fr | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tipped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip | past · passive | fr and nine heads and nine rods not said here | each rod | with fire | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
fr, the third one had nine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 fr | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | fr | nine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nine=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
nah, the third Troll only had nine heads on paper, not in real life, so it's fine
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Troll | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Troll | amod |
| 5 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fine | parataxis |
| 8 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 heads | nummod |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 paper | case |
| 11 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 life | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 life | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paper | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fine | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 fine | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fine | expl |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fine | cop |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the third Troll | nine heads | paper and real life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | fine property | 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.
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