Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, par…

what was the King doing with his fancy carriage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 127 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, part 1: a stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the snow for strawberries» 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	5 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 carriage	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 carriage	nmod:poss
8	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carriage	amod
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the King					with King's fancy carriage	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

he was going to the fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 fair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fair	det
6	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	he			the fair			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he rode to find the bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rode	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	he not said here	the bear					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Topic

Option 3

he went hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	gerund	he not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he stopped to talk to the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 talk	mark
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stopped	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 girl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	to-infinitive	he not said here					to the girl	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to girl=Co-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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