Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with…

Okay but the King literally couldn't tell the horses apart?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: not tell · To what, where: horses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1562 «Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with two tricks and a second horse» 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
5	literally	literally	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Okay	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horses	det
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obj
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	the King		the horses			apart, literally property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient

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

one was taller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taller	cop
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 one	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						tall property	tree rules

Option 2

they had different names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 names	amod
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	different names					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

not a single hair of difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hair	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hair	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 difference	case
6	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hair	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

one had a bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	one	a bell					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=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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