Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood:…
Be real, was the stepsister mint or what when she got toads?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be, get · To what, where: real stepsister mint, toads
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1559 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood: a kind girl and a rude girl get very different gifts» 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 real | cop |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mint | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mint | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mint | det |
| 6 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mint | compound |
| 7 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mint | conj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 got | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mint | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | real property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the real stepsister mint | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | past | she | toads | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toad=Stimulus |
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, she was fine, not a fail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fail | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 fail | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fail | det |
| 9 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fine | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | fine property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she was the worst, total fail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 worst | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 worst | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 worst | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 worst | det |
| 6 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fail | punct |
| 8 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fail | amod |
| 9 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worst | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | bad property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, she was mint, totally cool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 mint | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mint | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mint | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mint | cop |
| 5 | mint | mint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cool | punct |
| 7 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 8 cool | advmod |
| 8 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mint | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | mint property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | she not said here | totally property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, a fail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 fail | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fail | det |
| 4 | fail | fail | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1559-pg540-part56/t3/