Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 63: the false br…
was the old King actually peeking behind the bush, like full-on spying?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old King · What happens: peek
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1476 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 63: the false bride takes the princess's place and is found out» 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 | 6 peeking | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 peeking | nsubj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 peeking | advmod |
| 6 | peeking | peek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 bush | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bush | det |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peeking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spying | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 spying | case |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spying | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 spying | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 spying | case |
| 15 | spying | spying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peeking | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 peeking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peek | past · progressive | the old King | like full spying; behind the bush; actually property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind bush=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
yeah, a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bit | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he was spying hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 spying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spying | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spying | aux |
| 5 | spying | spy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 spying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past · progressive | he | hard property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
yeah, he was snooping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 snooping | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 snooping | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 snooping | aux |
| 5 | snooping | snoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snoop | past · progressive | he | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
nah, he was chilling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chilling | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chilling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chilling | aux |
| 5 | chilling | chill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | past · progressive | he | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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