Test 8 · ★ · Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, an…

What was his big plan for the pastor's stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: big plan

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 plan	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 plan	nmod:poss
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 stuff	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pastor	det
8	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuff	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 pastor	case
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plan	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		his big plan				for the pastor's stuff	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 right answer

Reach things out through the bars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reach	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Reach	compound:prt
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 bars	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bars	det
6	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach out	imperative	you not said here	things		the bars			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 2

Stand on the windowsill and pass the silver out through the bars to them one by one

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 windowsill	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 windowsill	det
4	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pass	cc
6	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 silver	det
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pass	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 pass	compound:prt
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 bars	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bars	det
12	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pass	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pass	obl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pass	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			the windowsill			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on windowsill=Location
2	pass out	infinitive	you not said here	the silver	bars = bar	the bars		one by one obl	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent silver=Theme to they=Recipient

Option 3

Pass items through the iron bars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 items	compound
2	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 bars	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bars	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bars	compound
6	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 items	nmod

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

Option 4

Dig a tunnel under the pastor's room and pull everything out quietly while he sleeps

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tunnel	det
3	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dig	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	8 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pastor	det
6	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 pastor	case
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dig	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pull	cc
10	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Dig	conj
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 pull	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 pull	compound:prt
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 pull	advmod
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 sleeps	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sleeps	nsubj
16	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pull	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dig	imperative	you not said here	a tunnel	the pastor's room		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme under room=Location
2	pull out	infinitive	you not said here	everything		quietly property	tree rules
3	sleep	present	pastor				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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