Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…

What did the robbers want Tom to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: robbers, Tom · What happens: do, want · To what, where: Tom

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 124 «Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Frog becomes a Prince, Henry's bands break, and Tom Thumb ends up in a cow» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	want	present	the robbers	Tom	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tom not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Break open the iron door with a crowbar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 open	compound
2	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 open	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 crowbar	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crowbar	det
8	crowbar	crowbar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 open	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	the iron door				with a crowbar	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with crowbar=Instrument

Option 2

Hide inside a sack of flour and wait until the guards went to sleep at midnight

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 sack	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 flour	case
6	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sack	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wait	cc
8	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guards	det
11	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sleep	mark
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 midnight	case
16	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	a sack of flour		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside sack=Location
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	the guards			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the guards not said here		midnight	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Creep through a keyhole into the treasury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Creep	creep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 keyhole	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 keyhole	det
4	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Creep	nmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 treasury	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 treasury	det
7	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Creep	nmod

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

Option 4

Pretend to be a servant and walk in through the main gate with a large basket

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	5 servant	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 servant	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pretend	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walk	cc
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pretend	conj
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
11	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gate	amod
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 basket	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 basket	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 basket	amod
16	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	you not said here	a servant			tree rules
3	walk in	infinitive	you not said here		the main gate	with a large basket	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory

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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