Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…
On which festival night did Ring and Snati arrive at the troll-dwelling cave?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ring · What happens: do, arrive, dwell · To what, where: dwelling cave
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 night | det |
| 3 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | compound |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 arrive | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Snati | cc |
| 8 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ring | conj |
| 9 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 12 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dwelling | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 troll | punct |
| 14 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 cave | amod |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrive | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | night | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | arrive | present | Ring and Snati | the dwelling cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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
Midsummer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midsummer | midsummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
New Year's Day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Year | compound |
| 2 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Day | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Year | case |
| 4 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Christmas Eve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Christmas | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the longest night of the whole year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | nmod |
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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