Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…
wait, why'd Big Klaus kill all four horses? was he being extra?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Big · What happens: wait, kill, be · To what, where: four horses
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1729 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little Klaus sells the sexton and then his dead grandmother for money» 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 | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 kill | advmod |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 Big | aux |
| 5 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 6 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Big | flat |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 four | advmod |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | nummod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kill | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 extra | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 extra | cop |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 extra | nsubj |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 extra | cop |
| 15 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 wait | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | present | Big | four horses | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Big | extra 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 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, super extra, because he wanted all the skins in town today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 extra | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 extra | punct |
| 3 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 extra | advmod |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanted | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 extra | parataxis |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 skins | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skins | det |
| 11 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wanted | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skins | nmod |
| 14 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wanted | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | all skins | town | today | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, super extra, for skins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 extra | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 extra | punct |
| 3 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 extra | advmod |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skins | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 skins | case |
| 7 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 extra | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, he wanted more skins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 skins | amod |
| 6 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | more skins | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme |
Option 4
yeah, super extra, for skins and for revenge too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 extra | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 extra | punct |
| 3 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 extra | advmod |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skins | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 skins | case |
| 7 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 extra | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 revenge | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 revenge | case |
| 10 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skins | conj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 skins | advmod |
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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