Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Prince Lindorm, part 54: the…
Did the king really chuck random girls at the lindorm?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, chuck · To what, where: king, random girls, lindorm
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 chuck | advmod |
| 5 | chuck | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 6 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girls | amod |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chuck | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 lindorm | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lindorm | det |
| 10 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chuck | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | chuck | present | random girls | the lindorm | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent girl=Theme at lindorm=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
Yeah, kitchen maids, since he'd take any
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 maids | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 maids | punct |
| 3 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maids | compound |
| 4 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 maids | acl:relcl |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | he | any | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, just servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 servants | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 servants | advmod |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, slave-women, cos he'd be sweet with anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 women | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 women | punct |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 women | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 slave | punct |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sweet | punct |
| 7 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 11 sweet | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sweet | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sweet | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sweet | cop |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 anyone | case |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 sweet | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | he | with anyone; sweet property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, they were noblewomen he wanted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 noblewomen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 noblewomen | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noblewomen | cop |
| 5 | noblewomen | noblewoman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noblewomen | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | noblewomen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | he | noblewomen not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot noblewoman=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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