Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…
Bro, who's the dead man the prince helped?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be, help · To what, where: dead man
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» 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 | 10 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | appos |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 10 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 helped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bro | the dead man | the prince nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | help | participle | Bro | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
The youth from the robbers' inn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 inn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 robbers | det |
| 5 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 inn | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 robbers | case |
| 7 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 youth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The stable lad from town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 2 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lad | amod |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lad | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The princess's old nurse who died at the palace gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 princess | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nurse | amod |
| 5 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 gate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gate | compound |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the princess's old nurse | the palace gate | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
The brother from the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | nmod |
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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