Test 11 · ★ · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…
bro, what even is a troll?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: troll
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 troll | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 troll | nsubj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 troll | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 troll | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 troll | det |
| 7 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bro | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bro and a troll | a troll | 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 · ✓ the right answer
a huge monster from old stories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 monster | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 monster | amod |
| 3 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 stories | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stories | amod |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 monster | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a huge hairy monster who lives in caves and eats children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 monster | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 monster | amod |
| 3 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 monster | amod |
| 4 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 monster | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 caves | case |
| 8 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lives | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eats | cc |
| 10 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lives | conj |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eats | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a huge hairy monster | caves | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | a huge hairy monster not said here | children | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
Option 3
a rich merchant who buys land in the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 merchant | amod |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 buys | nsubj |
| 5 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buys | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buys | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | a rich merchant | land | the forest | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a kind old farmer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmer | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmer | amod |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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