Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Cat…

yo why'd Catherine scold the cheeses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: scold · To what, where: cheeses

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 107 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Catherine loses the sausage and the beer, then wastes the butter and cheese on the road to find the gold» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 scold	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 scold	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scold	aux
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 scold	nsubj
5	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cheeses	det
7	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scold	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	would	yo	the cheeses					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme

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

they fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	they					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they stayed behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they					behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they were lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		they					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

they refused to move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 move	mark
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	they						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not move	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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