Test 14 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three gi…
Peak, what does "chink" mean in this bit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peak · What happens: chink, mean · To what, where: Peak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 715 «Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three giantesses, then finds the horse Gullfaxi and the sword Gunnfjoder» 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 | Peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chink | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 chink | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chink | aux |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chink | punct |
| 6 | chink | chink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Peak | appos |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chink | punct |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bit | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chink in a quote | present · do-support | Peak | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Peak | in this bit | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in bit=Attribute |
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
A small wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wall | amod |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A thin cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloth | det |
| 2 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloth | amod |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A wide opening in the cliff where the wind blows through
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 opening | det |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 opening | amod |
| 3 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cliff | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cliff | det |
| 6 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opening | nmod |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 blows | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blows | nsubj |
| 10 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 blows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow through | present | a wide opening in the cliff | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A narrow crack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crack | det |
| 2 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crack | amod |
| 3 | crack | crack | 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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