Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, part 61: the dwarf's beard…
ngl the angel thing at the cliff was kinda creepy, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cliff · What happens: ngl, be · To what, where: angel thing
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1474 «Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, part 61: the dwarf's beard is caught in a split tree» 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 | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | compound |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ngl | obj |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 creepy | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cliff | det |
| 7 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 creepy | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 creepy | cop |
| 9 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 10 creepy | advmod |
| 10 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 ngl | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 creepy | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 ngl | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ngl | imperative | you not said here | the angel thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the cliff | creepy, kinda property | 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 · ← Mova's choice
nah, it scared them off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | scared | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scared | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 scared | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare off | past | it | them = they | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
Option 2
nah, it was nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 nice | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nice | cop |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | nice property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, but it guarded them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 guarded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guarded | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 guarded | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 guarded | nsubj |
| 5 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 guarded | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past | it | them = they | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
Option 4
yeah, kinda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 kinda | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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