Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the secon…
Wait, so Minnikin fancied the younger Princess, not the older one?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Minnikin · What happens: wait, fancy · To what, where: younger Princess
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1575 «Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the second Princess from the Troll, brews the deadly ale, then is struck by his brother» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fancied | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 fancied | advmod |
| 4 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fancied | nsubj |
| 5 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 Princess | amod |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fancied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 one | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fancied | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fancy | past | Minnikin | the younger Princess | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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
yeah, the one he saved first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saved | nsubj |
| 6 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 saved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | he | the one not said here | first property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, the older one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, the one who sewed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sewed | nsubj |
| 6 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | past | the one | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
nah, the one he saved last
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 saved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saved | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saved | nsubj |
| 6 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saved | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | the one | last property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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