Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga i…

fr, who said the priest was prettier than Baldur?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, priest · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 894 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga is freed and finds her mother» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prettier	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 prettier	cop
8	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 Baldur	case
10	Baldur	Baldur	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 prettier	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fr						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the priest					than Baldur; pretty property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the frog's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 frog	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the stork's mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mate	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stork	case
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Viking's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Viking	det
2	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Viking	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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