Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

Ngl, what did the youth do when they wouldn't warm up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, youth · What happens: do, not warm up

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	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	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 warm	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 warm	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 warm	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 warm	advmod
12	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 do	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 warm	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the youth	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not warm up	would	youth	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hung them back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hung	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	1 Hung	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past		them = they					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

He tossed them all into the fire to burn

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 tossed	nsubj
2	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 them	nmod:unmarked
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tossed	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 burn	mark
9	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tossed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	He	them = they		the fire			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient into fire=Recipient
2	burn	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Sent them home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sent	obj
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 Sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		them = they				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

He hung them back up on the gallows tree

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 hung	nsubj
2	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hung	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	2 hung	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	He	them = they		the gallows tree			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on tree=Destination

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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