Test 8 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…
Wait, why did the queen want to get rid of Jesper?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, queen · What happens: wait, do, want, get
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Jesper | case |
| 12 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rid | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want | present | the queen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
He was a mere nobody
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mere | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mere | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mere | det |
| 4 | mere | mere | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 mere | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a mere | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
He was just a fisher-lad and the queen thought he was beneath her
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lad | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 lad | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lad | det |
| 5 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lad | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fisher | punct |
| 7 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lad | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 her | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 her | cop |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a fisher lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the queen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | he | beneath her = she | tree rules |
Option 3
He was just a fisher-lad who had bragged about winning the princess's hand in marriage
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lad | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 lad | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lad | det |
| 5 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lad | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fisher | punct |
| 7 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bragged | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bragged | aux |
| 10 | bragged | brag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lad | acl:relcl |
| 11 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 12 winning | mark |
| 12 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 bragged | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 winning | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 marriage | case |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 winning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a fisher lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | brag speech: other | past · perfect | a fisher lad | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | win | gerund | a fisher lad not said here | the princess's hand | marriage | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He was just a fisher-lad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lad | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 lad | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lad | det |
| 5 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lad | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fisher | punct |
| 7 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a fisher lad | tree rules |
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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