Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, par…

bro, what's the deal with the strawberries in winter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 strawberries	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strawberries	det
9	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deal	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 winter	case
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strawberries	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bro	the deal				with the strawberries in winter	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

they came from the dwarfs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 dwarfs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarfs	det
5	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they					from the dwarfs	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dwarf=Initial_Location

Option 2

the dwarfs grew them in a secret glasshouse under the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 glasshouse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 glasshouse	det
7	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glasshouse	amod
8	glasshouse	glasshouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the dwarfs	them = they		a secret glasshouse		under the hill	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 3

they were stored in the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stored	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stored	aux:pass
3	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cellar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cellar	det
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	past · passive		they		the cellar			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cellar=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they were under the snow, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snow	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snow	cop
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			the snow and no cap			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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