Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daugh…

ngl the birds ate ALL the seeds, so which seeds did the dad use for the 2nd sis?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl birds, seeds, dad · What happens: eat, do, use · To what, where: seeds

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ALL	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 seeds	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seeds	det
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 did	advmod
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 seeds	det
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dad	det
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 use	nsubj
15	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 did	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 sis	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sis	det
18	2nd	2nd	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	19 sis	amod
19	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 use	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the ngl birds	all seeds		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
2	do	past	which seeds			tree rules
3	use	infinitive	the dad		for the 2nd sis	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

a sack of mixed beans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 beans	case
4	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 beans	amod
5	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle							vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

carrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

split yellow lentils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lentils	amod
3	lentils	lentil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here	yellow lentils					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lentil=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

lentils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lentils	lentil	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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