Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…

What did the dude lose at ninepins, real talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do, lose · To what, where: ninepins

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	nsubj
5	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 ninepins	case
7	ninepins	ninepin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 talk	amod
10	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ninepins	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	lose	present	the dude			ninepins and real talk			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at ninepin=Eventuality

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

a handful of bills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bills	case
4	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 handful	nmod

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

Option 2

every dollar he had earned from the whole week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 dollar	det
2	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 earned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 earned	aux
5	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 dollar	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 week	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 week	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 week	amod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 earned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	past · perfect	he	every dollar not said here			week		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a couple of dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 dollars	case
4	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 couple	nmod

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

Option 4

all his cash and his dad's gold ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cash	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cash	nmod:poss
3	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ring	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dad	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	compound
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cash	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cash		his = he						nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=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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