Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Prince Lindorm, part 54: the…
Did she wear just one plain shirt on her wedding night?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: wear · To what, where: one plain shirt
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1665 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Prince Lindorm, part 54: the maiden breaks the lindorm's spell and the prince is freed» 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 wear | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wear | nsubj |
| 3 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 shirt | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 shirt | nummod |
| 6 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shirt | amod |
| 7 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wear | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 night | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 night | compound |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shirt | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past · do-support | she | one plain shirt | on her wedding night | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=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
Yeah, two white gowns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 gowns | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 gowns | nummod |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gowns | amod |
| 5 | gowns | gown | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, five plain linen shirts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 shirts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 shirts | nummod |
| 4 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shirts | amod |
| 5 | linen | linen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shirts | amod |
| 6 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, she wore a thick woollen dress with a silk cloak and gloves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wore | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dress | det |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dress | amod |
| 7 | woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dress | amod |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cloak | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cloak | det |
| 11 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cloak | compound |
| 12 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gloves | cc |
| 14 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cloak | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | she | a thick woollen dress | with a silk cloak and gloves | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, seven clean snow-white shirts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 shirts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 shirts | nummod |
| 4 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shirts | amod |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 white | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 snow | punct |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shirts | amod |
| 8 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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