Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins…

Did the poor man sell the ram straight away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor man · What happens: sell · To what, where: ram

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1100 «Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	nsubj
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ram	det
7	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 sell	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · do-support	the poor man	the ram				away property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=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

nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he said no at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	no					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he said yes later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 later	discourse
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, he sold it quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sold	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	it				quick property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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