Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

Okay, who was the Lord of the beasts, and what was his vibe?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lord · What happens: be · To what, where: Lord, vibe

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	6 Lord	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Lord	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Lord	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Lord	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lord	det
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 beasts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beasts	det
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Lord	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vibe	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 vibe	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 vibe	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 vibe	cop
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 vibe	nmod:poss
15	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Lord	appos
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 vibe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Lord				of the beasts	tree rules
2	is a	past	the Lord	his vibe					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 hunter with a bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bow	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bow	det
5	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunter	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a man who blew a horn to summon the animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horn	det
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 summon	mark
8	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 blew	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 summon	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	a man	a horn					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	summon	to-infinitive	a man not said here		the animals				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient

Option 3

a man who lived in a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cave	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cave	det
7	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a man			a cave			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a man who rode a horse through the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	a man	a horse		the trees			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme through tree=Trajectory

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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