Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…
Did the Dwarfs twig it was the Queen all along?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dwarfs, it · What happens: twig, be · To what, where: Queen
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Dwarfs | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dwarfs | det |
| 3 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 twig | nsubj |
| 4 | twig | twig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Queen | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Queen | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 twig | parataxis |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 along | advmod |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 twig | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 twig | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twig | present | the Dwarfs | along property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | the Queen | 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
Nah, not at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 all | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 all | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they didn't spot her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 spot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spot | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spot | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 spot | advmod |
| 6 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spot | past · do-support | they | her = she | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination |
Option 3
Yeah, they reckoned it later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | obj |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 reckoned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | they | it | late property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they clocked it straight off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 clocked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 clocked | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clocked | nsubj |
| 4 | clocked | clock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clocked | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 off | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 clocked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clock | past | they | it | off property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value |
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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