Test 8 · ★ · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…
ngl, how did the witch get over that lake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: do, get · To what, where: witch, lake
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 ngl | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the witch | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | present | ngl | that lake | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over lake=Destination |
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
on foot around it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 foot | case |
| 2 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 foot | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
by swimming it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 swimming | mark |
| 2 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swimming | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | gerund | it | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
with her dough-trough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 trough | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trough | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trough | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 dough | punct |
| 5 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
in a small wooden boat she built
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 4 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 built | nsubj |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boat | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | she | a small wooden boat not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Product |
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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