Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14:…
Who'd Jens write to for backup, then?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: write
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 803 «Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14: the widow's son returns, and Olaf Hase breaks into the church on Christmas night» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 write | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 write | aux |
| 3 | Jens | Jens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 write | nsubj |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 write | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 backup | case |
| 7 | backup | backup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 write | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 then | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 write | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 write | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | then | for backup | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for backup=Beneficiary |
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
His brother, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His uncle, Ivar Hase
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ivar | punct |
| 4 | Ivar | Ivar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 uncle | appos |
| 5 | Hase | Hase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ivar | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
His brother-in-law, Olaf Hase
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 law | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 law | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Olaf | punct |
| 8 | Olaf | Olaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | appos |
| 9 | Hase | Hase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Olaf | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His cousin, Olaf Vest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vest | punct |
| 4 | Olaf | Olaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vest | compound |
| 5 | Vest | Vest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | appos |
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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