Test 2 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…
Wicked, what did the king want next?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: want
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 want | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 want | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | next | next | ADV | _ | 7 want | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · do-support | the king | next property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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 · ← Mova's choice
a coverlet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coverlet | det |
| 2 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a lamp that glows in seven kingdoms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lamp | det |
| 2 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 glows | nsubj |
| 4 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lamp | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kingdoms | case |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kingdoms | nummod |
| 7 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present | a lamp | seven kingdoms | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location |
Option 3
a horse that runs over seven hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 horse | acl:relcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 seven | advmod |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hills | nummod |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 runs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run over | present | a horse | seven hills | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a lamp that shines over seven kingdoms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lamp | det |
| 2 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 shines | nsubj |
| 4 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lamp | acl:relcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 seven | advmod |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kingdoms | nummod |
| 7 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shines | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | a lamp | seven kingdoms | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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