Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ…

Mate, how come the Princess was so dead ill?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: come, be · To what, where: Princess

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ill	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ill	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 ill	advmod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ill	amod
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 ill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive		the Princess					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme
2	is	past	Mate					ill property	tree rules

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

Nothing sorted her except a fat toad, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	obj
4	except	except	ADP	_	7 toad	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toad	det
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toad	amod
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toad	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past	Nothing	her = she				except a fat toad	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing sorted her except stories, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	obj
4	except	except	ADP	_	5 stories	case
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sorted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proper	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sorted	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past	Nothing	her = she				except stories	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing sorted her except the iron stove, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	obj
4	except	except	ADP	_	7 stove	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stove	det
6	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stove	amod
7	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stove	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past	Nothing	her = she				except the iron stove	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

Nothing sorted her except a big sleep, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	obj
4	except	except	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sleep	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleep	amod
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleep	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past	Nothing	her = she				except a big sleep	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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