Test 7 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Christian the Smith, part 11:…
so who was that little dude in the church?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: little dude, church
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1622 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Christian the Smith, part 11: Christian guards the church, meets the dead princess, and bargains for a second night» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 dude | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dude | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dude | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 dude | mark |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dude | amod |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 church | det |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dude | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | little dude | the church | 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 · ← Mova's choice
a creepy little guy who kept stopping him from leaving the altar every time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 guy | det |
| 2 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guy | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guy | amod |
| 4 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stopping | obj |
| 9 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 10 leaving | mark |
| 10 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stopping | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 altar | det |
| 12 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a creepy little guy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | a creepy little guy not said here | guy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | a creepy little guy not said here | the altar | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Theme |
Option 2
a weird guy who kept him there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guy | det |
| 2 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guy | acl:relcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | obj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 kept | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a weird guy | him = he | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3
the princess's old servant who kept stopping him and tried to bribe him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 servant | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 princess | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 servant | amod |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stopping | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tried | cc |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bribe | mark |
| 13 | bribe | bribe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bribe | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the princess's old servant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | the princess's old servant not said here | servant | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | try | past | the princess's old servant not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | bribe not said to happen | to-infinitive | the princess's old servant not said here | servant | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a creepy guy who kept stopping him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guy | det |
| 2 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stopping | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a creepy guy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | a creepy guy not said here | guy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
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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