Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he…
Wait, what was that dude's job then, the one who shoots?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one · What happens: wait, be, shoot · To what, where: one, job
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1643 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new helpers join the ship and the king's fleet is blinded by fog» 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 job | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 job | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 job | cop |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 dude | det |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 job | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dude | case |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Wait | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 shoots | nsubj |
| 14 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | the one | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | that dude's job | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shoot | present | the one | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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
He was an archer who could split a hair at a hundred paces and never miss
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 archer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 archer | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 archer | det |
| 4 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 split | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 split | aux |
| 7 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 archer | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hair | det |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 split | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 paces | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 paces | nummod |
| 13 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 split | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 miss | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 miss | advmod |
| 16 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 split | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a archer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | split | could | a archer | a hair | at hundred paces | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||
| 3 | not miss | infinitive | a archer not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Shooting arrows, but he is pretty bad at it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shooting | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bad | csubj |
| 2 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shooting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bad | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 bad | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bad | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bad | cop |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 8 bad | advmod |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | gerund | arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | he | it | bad, pretty property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Shooting stuff, he hits everything he aims at
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hits | advcl |
| 2 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shooting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shooting | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hits | nsubj |
| 5 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 hits | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 aims | nsubj |
| 8 | aims | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 everything | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 aims | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | gerund | he not said here | stuff | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hit | present | he | everything | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | aim at | present | he | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 4
A marksman who never misses anything he aims
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 marksman | det |
| 2 | marksman | marksman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 aims | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 misses | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 misses | advmod |
| 5 | misses | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 marksman | acl:relcl |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 misses | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 misses | obj |
| 8 | aims | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not miss | present | a marksman | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | aim | present | a marksman | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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