Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans o…
Fam, what did the stone squash when he shook it off?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do, shake off · To what, where: stone squash, squash
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1632 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans outwits the squire's plots and beats Old Eric at Devilmoss Lake» 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 squash | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 squash | compound |
| 7 | squash | squash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 shook | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shook | nsubj |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shook | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 shook | compound:prt |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Fam | the stone squash | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squash=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | shake off | past | Fam | squash | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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
His own foot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 foot | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 foot | amod |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A steward's ear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 steward | det |
| 2 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ear | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 steward | case |
| 4 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A footman's left thumb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 footman | det |
| 2 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 footman | case |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thumb | amod |
| 5 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
One of the squire's big toes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 toes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 squire | det |
| 4 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 squire | case |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 toes | amod |
| 7 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
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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