Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…

Did the youth actually learn to shiver before the wedding?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: do, learn, shiver

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learn	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 learn	advmod
5	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shiver	mark
7	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learn	xcomp
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 wedding	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wedding	det
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shiver	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	present	the youth		actually property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shiver	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	before the wedding		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

he did, sort of

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	4 sort	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sort	aux
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct
4	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 sort	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past · do-support	he						vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no way, not yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 yet	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 way	advmod

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

Option 3

not really, he only learned it from the bride's cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learned	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 learned	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 learned	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learned	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 learned	advmod
6	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learned	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	13 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bride	det
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 bride	case
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	past	he	it		the bride's cold water			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from water=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yes, he learned it right before the wedding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 learned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learned	nsubj
4	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learned	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 learned	advmod
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	he	it			before the wedding	right property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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