Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampi…

so the king found her in a tree by accident?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: find · To what, where: her, tree

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1567 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampion, a stolen baby, and a girl locked in a tower» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 accident	case
10	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the king	her = she		a tree by accident			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

yeah, he was hunting a deer and saw her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hunting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hunting	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hunting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunting	aux
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunting	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunting	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	he	a deer					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
2	see	past	he not said here	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2

yep, his hunting dog kept barking up at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dog	nmod:poss
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dog	compound
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 barking	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	his hunting dog						tree rules
2	bark up	gerund	his hunting dog not said here					at dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus

Option 3

yeah, on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 purpose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 purpose	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 purpose	case
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, his greyhound was barking at her like crazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 barking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 greyhound	nmod:poss
4	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 barking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 barking	aux
6	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 barking	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 crazy	case
10	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past · progressive	his greyhound	her = she				like crazy	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent her=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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