Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…
did the King really chop his own kids' heads off? that's bare grim
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: King, that · What happens: chop off, be · To what, where: heads
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chop | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chop | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 chop | advmod |
| 5 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kids | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kids | amod |
| 8 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 kids | case |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chop | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 chop | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chop | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 grim | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 grim | cop |
| 15 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grim | amod |
| 16 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chop | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop off | past · do-support | the King | King's own kids's heads | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | grim 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
Yes, to revive the statue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 revive | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 revive | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 revive | mark |
| 4 | revive | revive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 statue | det |
| 6 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 revive | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revive | to-infinitive | the statue | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent statue=Patient |
Option 2
No, just a rumour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 rumour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 rumour | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rumour | det |
| 5 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, to save the stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 save | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 save | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 save | mark |
| 4 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 save | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | to-infinitive | the stone | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, to bring John back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | to-infinitive | John | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument john=Destination |
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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