Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…

Did the elder bro laugh or cry when the little one talked about shivering?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elder bro, little one · What happens: laugh, cry, shiver

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	nsubj
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 cry	cc
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 laugh	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 shivering	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shivering	nsubj
12	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 shivering	aux
13	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 shivering	mark
14	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cry	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	laugh	past · do-support	the elder bro	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	the elder bro not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shiver	participle	the little one	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he sighed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sighed	nsubj
2	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wept	wept	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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