Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Rapunzel, part 25: Rapunzel is cast out and the bli…

is the apple tree yelling shake me for real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, yell, shake · To what, where: apple tree, me

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 122 «Grimm, Rapunzel, part 25: Rapunzel is cast out and the blinded prince finds her; a girl meets Mother Holle» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tree	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yelling	compound
5	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 shake	advcl
6	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 shake	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 real	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shake	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the apple tree		tree rules
2	yell speech: express	gerund	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shake	imperative	you not said here	me	for real	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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

nah, it just dropped apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dropped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dropped	advmod
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	it	apples					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme

Option 2

yeah it's a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tree	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tree	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tree	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a tree					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah it said the apples were all ripe and ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 apples	det
5	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ripe	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ripe	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 ripe	advmod
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ready	cc
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ripe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the apples	all, ripe property	tree rules
3	be		the apples not said here		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah it was the girl who shouted at the tree first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 girl	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 girl	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 shouted	nsubj
7	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouted	obl
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 shouted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the girl					tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	the girl			the tree		first property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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