Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier gets his human shape…
did the girl's dad know what was going on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: do, know, go on · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 113 «Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier gets his human shape back and claims his bride, and Cinderella begins» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 did | parataxis |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 going | compound:prt |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | know | present | the girl's dad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go on | past · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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
nah, he was out at the fair and didn't know about the stepmother
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 out | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 out | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 out | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 fair | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fair | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 out | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 out | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 stepmother | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stepmother | det |
| 15 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | the fair | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | he not said here | about the stepmother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about stepmother=Stimulus |
Option 2
nah, he was at the market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 market | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 market | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 market | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 market | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 market | det |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | the market | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he was out at the fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 out | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 out | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 out | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 fair | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fair | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 out | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | the fair | out property | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, he was out at the fair buying things and never came back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 fair | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fair | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fair | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 fair | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 fair | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fair | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 9 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fair | acl |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 buying | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fair | cc |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 came | advmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | the fair | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy | gerund | the fair not said here | things | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not come back | past | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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