Test 9 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

What did his mum decide to do in the end, like, last thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: do, decide · To what, where: end

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 decide	nsubj
5	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 decide	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thing	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	15 thing	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	decide	present	his mum		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	his mum not said here	in the end	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

go talk to her husband about it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	talk				to her husband about talk	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location talk=Theme

Option 2

go and talk it over with her husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 talk	cc
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 go	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talk	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	3 talk	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 husband	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk over	infinitive	you not said here	it				with her husband	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

go talk to her husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	talk				to her husband	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location talk=Theme

Option 4

ask her husband first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ask	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her husband			first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient

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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