Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 14: the Wolf i…

no way, why did dummerly's dad let him go to the forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, way · What happens: let, go · To what, where: way, forest

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 111 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 14: the Wolf is caught and Little Red-Cap is eaten, then Dummerly finds a golden goose» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 let	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 let	aux
6	dummerly	dummerly	ADV	_	9 let	advmod
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dummerly	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	dad	no way				dummerly property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	no way not said here			the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location

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

To chop wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 chop	mark
2	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	to-infinitive		wood					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

Option 2

He wanted him to hunt a deer

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hunt	mark
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	him = he					tree rules
2	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	a deer					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted him to learn his lesson

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 learn	mark
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lesson	nmod:poss
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	him = he					tree rules
2	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	his lesson					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic

Option 4

To find a golden goose there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 goose	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goose	amod
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		a golden goose		there			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=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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