Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 18: the King…
what do the crows reckon, the stuff they're on about?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crows · What happens: be, reckon
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 115 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 18: the King sees a portrait, falls in love, and sails off with its princess» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crows | det |
| 4 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuff | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stuff | det |
| 8 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | appos |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 on | nsubj |
| 10 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 on | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stuff | acl:relcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 what | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reckon | present | the crows | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a horse will jump up and take the King
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 jump | aux |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 jump | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jump | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | future | a horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | a horse not said here | the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination |
Option 2
the sea will take him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | the sea | him = he | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
Option 3
a horse will bite him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bite | aux |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bite | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | future | a horse | him = he | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a bird will carry off the golden cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 carry | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cup | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cup | amod |
| 8 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | future | a bird | the golden cup | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=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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