Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…

sus, what did the host's wife tell him to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: wife, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 103 «Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 6: the youth fights the cats and the wild bed in the castle» 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sus	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 host	det
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 host	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	sus	the host's wife		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	sus		him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	sus not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

pay the bill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bill	det
3	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here	the bill					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

hold his tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tongue	nmod:poss
3	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	his tongue					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

Option 3

open the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	the gate					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme

Option 4

fetch more wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 wood	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	more wood					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

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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