Test 9 · ★ · Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the woo…
Was the dagger girl dead brave or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: dagger girl
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1472 «Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the wood after the pebbles and the crumbs» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girl | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | compound |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brave | csubj |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brave | amod |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 brave | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 brave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the dagger girl | tree rules |
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
Yeah, she fought the captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 captain | det |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | she | the captain | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Co-Agent |
Option 2
Mostly, yeah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mostly | punct |
| 3 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Mostly | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she saved her master's life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saved | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saved | nsubj |
| 4 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 master | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saved | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | she | her master's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, she stabbed a thief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stabbed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thief | det |
| 6 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stabbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | past | she | a thief | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Patient |
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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