Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest…
what's a ransom, like, in normal words?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ransom
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1635 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest prince pays a murderous host, escapes, and meets the fox again» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 ransom | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ransom | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ransom | det |
| 4 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 6 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 ransom | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 words | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ransom | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ransom | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a ransom and normal words | 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 · ← Mova's choice
a gift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
paying money to buy back your life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 paying | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 buy | mark |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 paying | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 buy | advmod |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | money | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||||
| 2 | buy back | to-infinitive | your life | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
Option 3
paying a fee to leave town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fee | det |
| 3 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 paying | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 paying | advcl |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | a fee | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | town | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
Option 4
giving a king a fine horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 giving | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 giving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | a fine horse | a king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient horse=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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