Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

Dude, why'd he take them down from the gallows?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: take down · To what, where: them, gallows

This is test 6 · ★ 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	6 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 take	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 gallows	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gallows	det
11	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take down	would	he	them = they		the gallows			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

Cuz he's soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 soft	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	cop
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cuz	Cuz not said here				soft property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he had a soft heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 heart	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heart	amod
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cause	a soft heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 3

He was bored

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	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules

Option 4

Cause he was feeling bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 feeling	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feeling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feeling	aux
4	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · progressive	he					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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