Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, an…

How did the thieves find him in the grass?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: thieves · What happens: find · To what, where: him, grass

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 118 «Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, and offers to help thieves rob a pastor» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 find	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thieves	det
4	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the thieves	him = he		the grass			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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 right answer

They followed his voice, low key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 key	punct
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 key	amod
7	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 voice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	They	his voice and low key					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

Option 2

They chased his voice, quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quietly	punct
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 chased	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	They	his voice				quietly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

Option 3

By dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 dogs	case
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

By sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 sight	case
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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