Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…
did the guy just take the bread and leave?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy · What happens: take, leave · To what, where: bread
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guy | det |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bread | det |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leave | cc |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | the guy | the bread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | the guy not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 · ← Mova's choice
nah he plucked feathers from the snoring people first and then he stole the eagle's bread too
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 plucked | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plucked | nsubj |
| 3 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plucked | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | snoring | snoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | compound |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plucked | obl |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 plucked | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stole | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stole | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stole | nsubj |
| 13 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plucked | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eagle | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bread | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 eagle | case |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | obj |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 stole | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | he | feathers | from the snoring people; first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from people=Source | |||
| 2 | steal | past | he | the eagle's bread | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bread=Theme |
Option 2
nah he nicked some feathers off the sleeping folks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nicked | nsubj |
| 3 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 feathers | det |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nicked | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 folks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 folks | det |
| 8 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 folks | compound |
| 9 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | he | some feathers | the sleeping folks | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme off folk=Source |
Option 3
nah he plucked feathers from all the snoring people in the house and then climbed back out the window
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 plucked | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plucked | nsubj |
| 3 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plucked | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 8 | snoring | snoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 people | compound |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plucked | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 people | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 climbed | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 climbed | advmod |
| 15 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plucked | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 climbed | advmod |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 climbed | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 climbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | he | feathers | from all snoring people in the house | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from people=Source | |||
| 2 | climb back | past | he not said here | the window | then | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah he plucked feathers from the snoring people first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 plucked | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plucked | nsubj |
| 3 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plucked | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | snoring | snoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | compound |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plucked | obl |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 plucked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | he | feathers | from the snoring people; first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from people=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/t7/