Test 9 · ★ · From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires a…
Björn's name means son of Erik. What would his sister Freya's surname end in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name, Björn · What happens: mean, name · To what, where: son
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 66 «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» of the history 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: Björn's name means son of Erik.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Björn | Björn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Björn | case |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Erik | case |
| 7 | Erik | Erik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Björn's name | son of Erik | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic | ||||
| 2 | name | Björn | nom name «communication 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: What would his sister Freya's surname end in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 end | aux |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surname | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Freya | Freya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | appos |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Freya | case |
| 7 | surname | surname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | compound |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 1 What | case |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She would have no surname at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 surname | det |
| 5 | surname | surname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 have | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | She | no surname | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surname=Patient |
Option 2
-son, exactly like Björn's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 son | punct |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Björn | punct |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 Björn | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Björn | case |
| 6 | Björn | Björn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 son | appos |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Björn | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
-dóttir, meaning daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dóttir | punct |
| 2 | dóttir | dóttir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meaning | punct |
| 4 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dóttir | acl |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | gerund | dóttir not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
-ski, as in Polish names
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ski | punct |
| 2 | ski | ski | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 names | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 names | case |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 names | case |
| 6 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 names | amod |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ski | conj |
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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