Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…
So he has to act like a total fool and smash stuff at the troll's place?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: have, act · To what, where: place
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» 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 | _ | 3 has | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 act | mark |
| 5 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | xcomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 fool | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fool | det |
| 8 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fool | amod |
| 9 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 act | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stuff | cc |
| 11 | smash | smash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stuff | amod |
| 12 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fool | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 troll | det |
| 15 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 troll | case |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 act | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | act | to-infinitive | he not said here | the troll's place | like a total fool and smash stuff | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like fool=Attribute |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a total fool, smashing windows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fool | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fool | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fool | det |
| 4 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fool | amod |
| 5 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 smashing | punct |
| 7 | smashing | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fool | acl |
| 8 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 smashing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | gerund | a total fool not said here | windows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, he's chill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | cop |
| 5 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | chill property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, a total clown, breaking doors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 clown | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clown | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 clown | det |
| 4 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clown | amod |
| 5 | clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 doors | punct |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 doors | amod |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clown | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, smash stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 smash | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | smash | smash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stuff | amod |
| 4 | stuff | stuff | 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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