Test 11 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

ya know the landlord's wife, what did she say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ya, wife · What happens: know, say · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 landlord	det
4	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 landlord	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wife	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	ya						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	wife	the landlord's wife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Hush, go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hush	hush	INTJ	_	3 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hush	punct
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Stop talking, it's dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dangerous	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dangerous	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stop	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	you not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it	dangerous property	tree rules

Option 3

Keep quiet, it is too risky now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 risky	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 risky	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 risky	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 risky	advmod
7	risky	risky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	advcl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here				now	quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					risky property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hold your tongue, it's dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tongue	nmod:poss
3	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dangerous	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dangerous	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dangerous	cop
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	your tongue					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
2	is	present	tongue					dangerous property	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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