Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…
Who was the goblin's best mate, the elf king or the water-god? Which one fed him mead?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, feed · To what, where: best mate, mead, goblin
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» 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
Sentence 1: Who was the goblin's best mate, the elf king or the water-god?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mate | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goblin | det |
| 4 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 goblin | case |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 mate | amod |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 king | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mate | appos |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 god | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 god | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 water | punct |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the goblin's best mate | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: Which one fed him mead?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fed | nsubj |
| 3 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fed | obj |
| 5 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fed | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | which one | mead | goblin | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient mead=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The water-god gave the mead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 water | punct |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mead | det |
| 7 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the water god | the mead | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Theme |
Option 2
The water-god, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 water | punct |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The elf king's hill had the mead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hill | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mead | det |
| 8 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the elf king's hill | the mead | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient |
Option 4
The elf king drank all the mead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drank | nsubj |
| 4 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 mead | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mead | det |
| 7 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drank | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | the elf king | all mead | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient |
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