Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee fro…

bro, who did the man think was grubbing up turnips?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: think, grub up · To what, where: turnips

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grubbing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 think	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bro	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grubbing	aux
9	grubbing	grub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 grubbing	compound:prt
11	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grubbing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 grubbing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	bro						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grub up	past · progressive	bro	turnips					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

The Evil One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 One	det
2	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 One	amod
3	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The parson's own lame servant, hidden in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parson	det
2	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 servant	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 parson	case
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servant	amod
5	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servant	amod
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hidden	punct
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 servant	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		the parson's own lame servant not said here		the field			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location

Option 3

Catherine, who was pulling up the roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pulling	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pulling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pulling	aux
5	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Catherine	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 pulling	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roots	det
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pulling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	past · progressive	Catherine	the roots					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme

Option 4

The priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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