Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…
Bruv, what did the fox need the prince to do so he could be free?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, prince · What happens: do, need, be · To what, where: fox, prince
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 need | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bruv | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 need | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 need | xcomp |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 free | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 free | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 free | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 free | cop |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 do | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv | the fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Bruv | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | could | Bruv | free property | 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
Kill the lions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lions | det |
| 3 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | imperative | you not said here | the lions | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |
Option 2
Take him back to the palace and bury him quietly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bury | cc |
| 8 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bury | obj |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 8 bury | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | imperative | you not said here | him = he | the palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | you not said here | him = he | quietly property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Cut off his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Cut | compound:prt |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cut | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | imperative | you not said here | his head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
Option 4
Cut off his head with the golden sword at dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Cut | compound:prt |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cut | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cut | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 dawn | case |
| 10 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cut | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | imperative | you not said here | his head | dawn | with the golden sword | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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