Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Two-Eyes, the silver tree and the golden ap…
did the sisters end up broke?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: end up, break
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 130 «Grimm's Tales, Two-Eyes, the silver tree and the golden apples: the Knight marries Two-Eyes and her sisters come begging» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 end | nsubj |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | parataxis |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 end | compound:prt |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | past · do-support | the sisters | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | break | past | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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
yeah, they were begging for bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 begging | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 begging | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 begging | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begging | aux |
| 5 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past · progressive | they | for bread | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for bread=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, they were begging for bread at the palace door after wandering the roads for years
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 begging | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 begging | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 begging | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begging | aux |
| 5 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begging | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | compound |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begging | obl |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 wandering | mark |
| 13 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 begging | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roads | det |
| 15 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wandering | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wandering | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past · progressive | they | the palace door | for bread | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for bread=Topic | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | they not said here | the roads | year | tree rules |
Option 3
yeah, they lost everything in the fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 lost | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | they | everything | the fire | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
Option 4
yeah, they lost all their gold and ended up cold, hungry and begging for bread every day
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 gold | det:predet |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gold | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ended | cc |
| 9 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 ended | compound:prt |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ended | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hungry | punct |
| 13 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cold | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 begging | cc |
| 15 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cold | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 bread | case |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begging | obl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | they | their gold | day | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | end up | past | they not said here | cold property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | gerund | they not said here | for bread | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for bread=Topic |
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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