Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…
Was the palace all black cos of a funeral, or what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: palace
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1573 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin tricks three one-eyed hags for magic gifts, then saves the Princess from the first Troll while Ritter Red takes the credit.» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 palace | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cos | csubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 cos | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cos | amod |
| 6 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 funeral | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 funeral | det |
| 9 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cos | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cos | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cos | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the palace | 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
Cos a Troll stole the crown jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 Troll | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Troll | det |
| 3 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | obl |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jewels | det |
| 6 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jewels | compound |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stole | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | the crown jewels | cos a Troll | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jewel=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cos the Princess was promised to Trolls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 Princess | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 promised | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 promised | aux:pass |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Trolls | case |
| 7 | Trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 promised | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · passive | Trolls | cos the Princess | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: to troll=Recipient |
Option 3
Cos the King died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 King | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | cos the King | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
Cos the Queen's gone to Trolls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Queen | case |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Trolls | case |
| 7 | Trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | Trolls | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to troll=Initial_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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