Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…
Mate, what did the Dwarfs say the girl's job was?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, Dwarfs, job, girl · What happens: do, say, be, job · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dwarfs | det |
| 6 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 job | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 11 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Dwarfs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past | the girl's job | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | job | the girl | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
Sweep, dust and sew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dust | punct |
| 3 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sweep | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sew | cc |
| 5 | sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sweep | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | present | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Mind the goats, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goats | det |
| 3 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mind | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goats | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | imperative | you not said here | the goats and mate | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme |
Option 3
Keep house, cook and knit, and never let anyone in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cook | punct |
| 4 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knit | cc |
| 6 | knit | knit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 let | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cook | infinitive | you not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | knit | infinitive | you not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not let in | infinitive | you not said here | anyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Keep house, cook and knit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cook | punct |
| 4 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knit | cc |
| 6 | knit | knit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cook | infinitive | you not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | knit | infinitive | you not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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