Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…
Mate, did the giantess believe Ingiborg about the forest?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: giantess · What happens: believe · To what, where: Ingiborg
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giantess | det |
| 5 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Ingiborg | Ingiborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past · do-support | the giantess | Ingiborg | about the forest; Mate vocative | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ingiborg=Stimulus |
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
no, she just said "Go away!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Go | punct |
| 7 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 Go | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
yes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
no, she shouted "That's a lie!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 shouted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lie | punct |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 lie | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lie | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lie | det |
| 9 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 lie | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | That | a lie | tree rules |
Option 4
no
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 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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