Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

bro, what did the old king taste that was like wormwood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old king taste · What happens: do, be · To what, where: old king taste

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 taste	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 taste	amod
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taste	compound
8	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 wormwood	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wormwood	cop
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 wormwood	case
12	wormwood	wormwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taste	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old king taste				bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Eventuality
2	is	past	the old king taste					like wormwood	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 salt water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the bitter water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the bitter water from the cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 cup	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cup	det
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	nmod

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

Option 4

the bitter water the Prince brought home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 water	appos
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the bitter water					home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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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