Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daugh…
bro what did the king's son say broke the spell?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do, say, break · To what, where: son, spell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1615 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daughter feeds the beasts and breaks the witch's spell» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 bro | acl:relcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 bro | acl:relcl |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spell | det |
| 11 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | bro | the king's son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | bro not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | break | past | bro | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient |
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
a maiden kind to birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kind | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kind | amod |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a maiden kind to beasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kind | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kind | amod |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 beasts | case |
| 5 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a maiden who was kind to all beasts and birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | amod |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 beasts | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 beasts | det |
| 8 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kind | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 birds | cc |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beasts | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | to all beasts and birds; kind property | tree rules |
Option 4
a maiden kind to beasts and to the poor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kind | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kind | amod |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 beasts | case |
| 5 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kind | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 poor | cc |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 poor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poor | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kind | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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