Test 2 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

ngl, what did he want to learn in that castle, fr?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: want, learn · To what, where: castle

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 learn	mark
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 castle	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fr	punct
13	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 castle	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	ngl					ngl vocative	tree rules
2	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	ngl not said here			that castle and fr			vn learn-14-1 «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

How to be afraid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 afraid	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	4 afraid	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						afraid property	tree rules

Option 2

How to shudder and feel afraid of the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 shudder	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shudder	mark
3	shudder	shudder	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feel	cc
5	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 shudder	conj
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shudder	to-infinitive							vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	feel	infinitive						afraid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

How to shudder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shudder	mark
3	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

To learn to be scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 learn	mark
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 scared	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 learn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	to-infinitive							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive						scared 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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