Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

what did the gnome do for fun up top?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gnome · What happens: do

This is test 6 · ★ 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	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 gnome	det
4	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 fun	case
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
8	up	up	ADP	_	9 top	case
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the gnome					for fun; up top	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 · ✓ the right answer

rolled rocks down the valleys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rocks	amod
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 valleys	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 valleys	det
5	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rocks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

threw stones in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 threw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		stones		the river			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in river=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

sang songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past		songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

hid in the old woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 woods	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woods	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woods	amod
5	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past				the old woods			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location

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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