Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…
Did Cinderlad fancy getting his hair combed by the hag?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cinderlad, hair · What happens: fancy, get, comb · To what, where: hair
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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 | 3 fancy | aux |
| 2 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fancy | nsubj |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fancy | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | obj |
| 7 | combed | comb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 getting | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 hag | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hag | det |
| 10 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 combed | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past · do-support | Cinderlad | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | Cinderlad not said here | Cinderlad's hair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | comb | participle | Cinderlad's hair not said here | by the hag | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hag=Location |
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
Nah, he just ran straight past her and grabbed a foal's tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grabbed | cc |
| 10 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 foal | det |
| 12 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 foal | case |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grabbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | he | past her = she; straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past she=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | grab | past | he not said here | a foal's tail | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he just ran straight past her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ran | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | he | her = she | straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, he ignored her and left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 ignored | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ignored | nsubj |
| 4 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ignored | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ignored | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | past | he | her = she | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | he not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, he just ran off quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ran | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | he | quick property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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