Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…
How'd the king pick who gets the throne, lol?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king pick · What happens: get · To what, where: throne
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 pick | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pick | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pick | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pick | compound |
| 5 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pick | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lol | punct |
| 11 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 gets | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the king pick | the throne | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer throne=Stimulus |
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
by a test of strength
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 test | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 test | det |
| 3 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 strength | case |
| 5 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 test | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | strength | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
blowing three feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 feathers | nummod |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 blowing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | gerund | three feathers | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
Option 3
by sending each son to bring back a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 sending | mark |
| 2 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sending | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sending | advcl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | gerund | each son | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring back | to-infinitive | a horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination |
Option 4
by having them each shoot an arrow up high
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 having | mark |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 arrow | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 having | obj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 shoot | det |
| 5 | shoot | shoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 having | obj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 arrow | det |
| 7 | arrow | arrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 arrow | compound:prt |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 arrow | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | them = they | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | arrow up | present | high property | tree rules |
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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