Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

what does he compare himself to, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: compare · To what, where: himself

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» 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	4 compare	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compare	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 compare	nsubj
4	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 compare	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	4 compare	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	6 to	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 compare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	present · do-support	he	himself = he					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

a householder with swallows under his eaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 householder	det
2	householder	householder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 swallows	case
4	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 householder	nmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 eaves	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eaves	nmod:poss
7	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swallows	nmod

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

Option 2

a man with cows in his barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 cows	case
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 man	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 barn	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 barn	nmod:poss
7	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cows	nmod

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

Option 3

a neighbour who shares his barn with birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 shares	nsubj
4	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 neighbour	acl:relcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 barn	nmod:poss
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shares	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shares	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	a neighbour	his barn				with birds	tree rules

Option 4

a farmer who leaves his swallows be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 farmer	acl:relcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 swallows	nmod:poss
6	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaves	obj
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 leaves	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	a farmer	farmer's swallows					tree rules
2	be	infinitive	farmer's swallows not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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