Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…
dude, what did the cats want to do right after warming up?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude, cats · What happens: do, want, warm up
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | 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 | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cats | det |
| 6 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 warming | mark |
| 12 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 do | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 warming | compound:prt |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dude | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the cats | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cats not said here | right property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | warm up | gerund | the cats not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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
chase the dogs away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dogs | det |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 chase | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 chase | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase away | imperative | you not said here | the dogs | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
Option 2
eat some fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | some fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
play some cards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 cards | det |
| 3 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 play | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | imperative | you not said here | some cards | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
take a long nap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nap | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nap | amod |
| 4 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a long nap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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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