Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

so what did the mum do to the shell, dead wild

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mum	det
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 shell	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shell	det
9	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wild	amod
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the mum					to the shell	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

put it in the box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 box	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it		the box			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in box=Destination

Option 2

threw it in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		it		the sea			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sea=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

burned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

threw it in the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		it		the fire			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fire=Destination

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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