Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

what do the youths curse, like, who

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youths · What happens: be, curse

This is test 13 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 curse	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youths	det
4	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 curse	nsubj
5	curse	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 who	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 who	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 curse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	curse	present	the youths						vn judgment-33.1-1 «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

the wicked stepmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stepmother	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stepmother	amod
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the cruel mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the cruel mother who sent them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mother	acl:relcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past	the cruel mother	them = they				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

the old fisherman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fisherman	amod
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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