Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daugh…
wait so the house was a palace the whole time? what happened to it at midnight?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, house · What happens: wait, be, happen · To what, where: palace, house
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 palace | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 happened | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 midnight | case |
| 17 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the house | a palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | house | midnight | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
fell down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
shook and then the roof fell in completely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fell | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fell | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 roof | det |
| 5 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 shook | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 8 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | fall in | past | the roof | then | completely property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
broke into bits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 bits | case |
| 3 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 broke | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | into bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bit=Result |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
shook and fell in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fell | cc |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 shook | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | fall in | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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