Test 13 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…
what did he call the cats and dogs when they came swarming?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, cats · What happens: call, come, swarm · To what, where: cats · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 call | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cats | det |
| 6 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dogs | cc |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cats | conj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | advcl |
| 12 | swarming | swarm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 came | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | he | the cats and dogs | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme cat=Result | ||||
| 2 | come | past | cats = cat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swarm | gerund | cats = cat not said here | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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
Wild beasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beasts | amod |
| 2 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Rabble rout, the beasts of the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabble | rabble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rout | compound |
| 2 | rout | rout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beasts | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beasts | det |
| 5 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rout | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beasts | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Rabble rout
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabble | rabble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rout | compound |
| 2 | rout | rout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A rabble rout of hounds and cats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rout | det |
| 2 | rabble | rabble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rout | compound |
| 3 | rout | rout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hounds | case |
| 5 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rout | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cats | cc |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hounds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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