Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three gi…
Mate, what's the horse called again?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, call · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 horse | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 horse | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 horse | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 horse | acl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mate and the horse | the horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the horse not said here | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Sleipnir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleipnir | Sleipnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Golden-maned Gullfaxi of the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maned | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Golden | punct |
| 3 | maned | maned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Gullfaxi | amod |
| 4 | Gullfaxi | Gullfaxi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 north | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 north | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gullfaxi | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Gullfaxi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gullfaxi | Gullfaxi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Silvermane, the great horse of the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silvermane | Silvermane | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silvermane | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | nmod |
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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