Test 13 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

what came creeping up from the river after, all spooky?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: come, creep up · To what, where: river

This is test 13 · ★ 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 came	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 creeping	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creeping	obl
8	after	after	ADV	_	3 creeping	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spooky	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 spooky	det
11	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past							tree rules
2	creep up	gerund				the river		after property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from river=Trajectory

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

a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the old troll's ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 troll	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 troll	amod
3	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ghost	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 troll	case
5	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost		the old troll						nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

a dark shadow figure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 figure	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	compound
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	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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