Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…
Did she check herself out in the mirror walls, lol?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: check out · To what, where: herself, mirror walls
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 check | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 check | nsubj |
| 3 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 check | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 check | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 8 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walls | compound |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 check | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walls | punct |
| 11 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 check | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 check | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check out | past · do-support | she | herself = she | the mirror walls | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
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
Nope, she never checked her face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 checked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 checked | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 checked | advmod |
| 5 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 checked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not check | past | she | her face | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, all the time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 time | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she looked at herself a lot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lot | det |
| 8 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | she | a lot | at herself = she | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at herself=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she never even looked at herself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 looked | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past | she | at herself = she | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at herself=Theme |
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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