Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…
Did the daughters' tricks get the goblin hyped? Which was the one that impressed him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tricks, daughters, one · What happens: get, hype, trick, be, impress · To what, where: goblin, one
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Did the daughters' tricks get the goblin hyped?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tricks | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughters | det |
| 3 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 daughters | case |
| 5 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goblin | det |
| 8 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | hyped | hype | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 goblin | acl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the daughters's tricks | the goblin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goblin=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hype | participle | the goblin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trick | the daughters | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: Which was the one that impressed him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 impressed | nsubj |
| 6 | impressed | impress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 impressed | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | impress | past | the one | goblin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The fourth, peak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peak | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 peak | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fourth | punct |
| 4 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The seventh, with her stories, was peak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 seventh | det |
| 2 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stories | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stories | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 stories | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stories | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peak | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 peak | cop |
| 9 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | peak | tree rules |
Option 3
The first, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mate | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 mate | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 first | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The sixth, with her truth, was lit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sixth | det |
| 2 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 truth | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 truth | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 truth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sixth | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sixth | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lit | aux:pass |
| 9 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | past · passive | the sixth and her truth | tree rules |
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