Test 1 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…
Mate, did Cinderlad really chop the heads off seven foals?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Cinderlad · What happens: do, chop · To what, where: heads
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chop | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 chop | advmod |
| 6 | chop | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heads | det |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chop | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 foals | case |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 foals | nummod |
| 11 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chop | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chop | present | Cinderlad | the heads | off seven foals | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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 did it the day after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 after | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, on his wedding day, and the whole court was there watching him
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watching | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watching | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 court | amod |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 watching | aux |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 watching | advmod |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 day | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 watching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | the whole court | him = he | there | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, on the wedding day, sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | advcl:relcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, on his wedding day, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 proper | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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