Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

yo did the crab actually talk at dinner innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: yo, crab · What happens: do, talk · To what, where: crab, dinner innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crab	det
4	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 talk	advmod
6	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crab	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 innit	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 innit	compound
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the crab					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Eventuality
2	talk	present	the crab not said here			dinner innit		actually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"Give me some too"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 Give	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	2 Give	advmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	some	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme

Option 2

Bring me another plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Bring	iobj
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 plate	det
4	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	another plate	me				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination plate=Theme

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Eat up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Eat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	imperative	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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