Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Thre…

nan says hunger is rubbish, so why was Two-Eyes starving?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, Two Eyes · What happens: say, be, starve · To what, where: hunger rubbish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 129 «Grimm's Household Tales, Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes, part 1: the Queen learns the Dwarf's name, then Two-Eyes finds a magic table and loses her goat» 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	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rubbish	compound
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rubbish	cop
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 starving	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	13 starving	advmod
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 starving	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 starving	aux
10	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 Eyes	nummod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Two	punct
12	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 starving	nsubj
13	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	nan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		hunger rubbish	tree rules
3	starve	past · progressive	Two Eyes		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

Her sisters ate all the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sisters	nmod:poss
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bread	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Her sisters	all bread					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her sisters gave her only leftovers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sisters	nmod:poss
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 leftovers	advmod
6	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Her sisters	leftovers	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient leftover=Theme

Option 3

Her mum locked the pantry door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locked	nsubj
3	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	pantry	pantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past	Her mum	the pantry door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 4

Nan made her skip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skip	nmod:poss
4	skip	skip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Nan	Nan's skip					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skip=Product
2	skip		Nan						nom skip «act intransitive»: poss=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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