Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood:…
Nah, why did the duck keep swimming up the gutter?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, keep, swim up · To what, where: duck, gutter
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 duck | det |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 swimming | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gutter | det |
| 11 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swimming | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the duck | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | swim up | gerund | the gutter | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gutter=Trajectory |
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 right answer
To check on the Queen and the baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 check | mark |
| 2 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Queen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 check | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 baby | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baby | det |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Queen | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | to-infinitive | on the Queen and the baby | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on queen=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
To see if the King was home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 see | mark |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 home | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 home | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 home | cop |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 see | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the King | home property | tree rules |
Option 3
To find food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | food | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
Option 4
To watch over the stolen baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 watch | mark |
| 2 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 baby | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 5 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 baby | amod |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | to-infinitive | the stolen baby | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over baby=Location | |||||
| 2 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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