Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the…
bet, what did the princess mess up in the copper wood?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bet · What happens: do, mess up · To what, where: princess, copper wood
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» 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 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mess | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 bet | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | mess | mess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 mess | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 11 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wood | compound |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mess | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mess | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | bet | the princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mess up | present | bet | the copper wood | 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
she touched the bark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 touched | nsubj |
| 2 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bark | det |
| 4 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 touched | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | she | the bark | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bark=Co-Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
she grabbed a leaf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grabbed | nsubj |
| 2 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grabbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | she | a leaf | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
Option 3
she grabbed a leaf and tore it off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grabbed | nsubj |
| 2 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grabbed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tore | cc |
| 6 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabbed | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tore | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 tore | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | she | a leaf | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tore off | past | she not said here | leaf | tree rules |
Option 4
she broke a twig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 twig | det |
| 4 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | she | a twig | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twig=Patient |
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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