Test 6 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

sus, who came tumbling down the chimney?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus · What happens: come, tumble down · To what, where: chimney

This is test 6 · ★ 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 chimney	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chimney	det
8	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tumbling	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	sus						tree rules
2	tumble down	gerund	sus not said here	the chimney					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=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

A cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Half a man and a bunch of bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 man	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bunch	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bunch	det
6	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bones	case
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bunch	nmod

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

Option 3

Half a man covered in soot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 man	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 soot	case
6	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		half man not said here				in soot	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in soot=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Half a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 man	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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