Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58…
Real talk, what did the King want next, a sick new castle?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk, King · What happens: do, want
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1561 «Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58: Dapplegrim climbs the cliff and rescues the Princess, then the King sets new tasks» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | ccomp |
| 9 | next | next | ADV | _ | 8 want | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 castle | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Real talk and a sick new castle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the King | next property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the sun shining in his palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sun | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shining | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | the sun not said here | his palace | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a new hall for his feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hall | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hall | amod |
| 3 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 feast | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hall | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
more gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 coins | amod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coins | compound |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the moon shining on his bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 moon | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shining | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | the moon not said here | his bed | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Location |
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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