Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…
so the second boss was stingy, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second boss · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 stingy | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boss | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 boss | amod |
| 4 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stingy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stingy | cop |
| 6 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stingy | punct |
| 8 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 stingy | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stingy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the second boss | stingy property | 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
yeah, he was cheap with pay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cheap | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheap | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cheap | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheap | cop |
| 5 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pay | case |
| 7 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cheap | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | with pay; cheap property | tree rules |
Option 2
yep, he hated paying up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 hated | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 4 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hated | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 paying | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | he | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pay up not said to happen | gerund | he not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
nah, he was nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 nice | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nice | cop |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | nice property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he begrudged his wages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 begrudged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 begrudged | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begrudged | nsubj |
| 4 | begrudged | begrudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wages | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 begrudged | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begrudge | past | he | his wages | tree rules |
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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