Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…
Her sister had a gold ring, no cap. What was it for?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: have, be · To what, where: gold ring, ring
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Her sister had a gold ring, no cap.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ring | compound |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cap | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 cap | det |
| 9 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ring | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Her sister | a gold ring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
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: What was it for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 What | case |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ring | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Just jewellery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 jewellery | advmod |
| 2 | jewellery | jewellery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A betrothal, like an engagement
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 betrothal | det |
| 2 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 engagement | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 engagement | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 engagement | det |
| 6 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 betrothal | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bribe for the goblin king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bribe | det |
| 2 | bribe | bribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | compound |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bribe | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A promise to meet at the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 promise | det |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 meet | mark |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | to-infinitive | the sea | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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