Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ…

Wait, what did the fat toad say when she knocked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, toad · What happens: wait, do, say, knock · To what, where: fat toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» 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	_	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	8 say	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 toad	det
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toad	amod
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 knocked	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knocked	nsubj
11	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the fat toad	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	knock	past	toad		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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

A curse on the cruel mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 curse	det
2	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 mother	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 curse	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A rhyme about a little green toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rhyme	det
2	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	7 toad	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toad	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toad	amod
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toad	amod
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rhyme	nmod

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

Option 3

A promise of three wishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wishes	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 wishes	nummod
5	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 promise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise			three wishes					nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A song about a golden shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 shell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shell	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shell	amod
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 song	nmod

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

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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