Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

Fr, what did the youth do to the white figure on the stairs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, youth · What happens: do

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	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 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 figure	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 figure	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 figure	amod
11	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 stairs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stairs	det
14	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 figure	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Fr						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the youth					to the white figure on the stairs	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Hit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2

He ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He pushed it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push away	past	He	it				away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He knocked it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	He	it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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