Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

Dude, what did the youth say when the man asked about shuddering?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, youth, man · What happens: do, say, ask, shudder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 shuddering	mark
13	shuddering	shudder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asked	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the youth	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	the man	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shudder	gerund	the man not said here	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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, I'm not sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sure	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sure	advmod
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	I					sure property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, how should I

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 should	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 should	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 should	advmod
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 should	nsubj

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

Option 3

Yeah, I know it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

No, how should I know what that even is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 know	advmod
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 know	ccomp
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 what	nsubj
9	even	even	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	that						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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