Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood:…

Yo, how did the King figure out the Queen wasn't real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: figure out, not be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 figure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 figure	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 figure	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 figure	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 figure	nsubj
7	figure	figure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 figure	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 real	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 real	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 real	advmod
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 figure	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 figure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure out	past · do-support	the King						vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	the Queen					real 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

The duck talked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the duck						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The scullion told him, and the duck flew off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scullion	det
2	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 duck	det
8	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 flew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the scullion		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	fly off	past	the duck						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The toad came out, and the duck talked in the gutter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toad	det
2	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 talked	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 duck	det
8	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talked	nsubj
9	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 gutter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gutter	det
12	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the toad					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	talk	past	the duck			the gutter			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The duck talked in the gutter, and the toad jumped out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 gutter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gutter	det
6	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jumped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jumped	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 toad	det
10	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jumped	nsubj
11	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 jumped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the duck			the gutter			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	jump out	past	the toad						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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