Test 10 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…
what did the girl beg for before she'd go?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, go · To what, where: girl beg
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beg | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beg | compound |
| 5 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beg | acl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the girl beg | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beg=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | would | she | the girl beg not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beg=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
the gold cloak and the chess-board first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cloak | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloak | compound |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 board | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 board | det |
| 6 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 board | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 chess | punct |
| 8 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloak | conj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 board | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the whole of the King's treasure chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chest | compound |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whole | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the bright gold piece
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 piece | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 piece | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | compound |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the gold chess-board
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 board | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 board | compound |
| 3 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 board | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 chess | punct |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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