Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Two-Eyes, the silver tree and the golden ap…

bro, what's an alms anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: alms

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 alms	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 alms	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 alms	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 alms	det
6	alms	alms	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 alms	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bro	a alms				anyway property	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

a kind of silver fruit from the magic tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fruit	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fruit	compound
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fruit	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a kind of coin used in the old king's time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coin	case
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kind	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a kind of coin not said here			time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

money or food you give to poor people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 food	cc
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 money	conj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	money or food		poor people				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient

Option 4

money or food you give to poor people, usually at a church or a palace gate on feast days

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 food	cc
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 money	conj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 church	punct
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 church	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 church	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 church	det
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 gate	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 gate	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gate	compound
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 church	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 days	case
19	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 days	compound
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	money or food		poor people	a church or a palace gate	day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient at church=Asset

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