Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, par…
yo, did the father really fancy the widow?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: do, fancy · To what, where: father, widow
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 fancy | advmod |
| 7 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 father | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 widow | det |
| 9 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fancy | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the father | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fancy | infinitive | the father not said here | the widow | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer widow=Stimulus |
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
nah, he only wanted a housekeeper and peace at home quietly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 housekeeper | det |
| 7 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 peace | cc |
| 9 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 housekeeper | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obl |
| 12 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | a housekeeper and peace | home | quietly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot housekeeper=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, he fancied her madly but wanted peace and a quiet life too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fancied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fancied | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fancied | nsubj |
| 4 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fancied | obj |
| 6 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 4 fancied | advmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fancied | conj |
| 9 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wanted | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 life | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 peace | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 wanted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | he | her = she | madly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | want | past | he not said here | peace and a quiet life | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot peace=Theme |
Option 3
nah, he wanted a quiet life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | a quiet life | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot life=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he just wanted peace at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | peace | home | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot peace=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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