Test 1 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…
Dude, did the cobbler actually whack Jem with straps?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: whack · To what, where: Jem
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1791 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes the duke's cook and meets a talking goose» 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whack | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 whack | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cobbler | det |
| 5 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whack | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 whack | advmod |
| 7 | whack | whack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 whack | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 straps | case |
| 10 | straps | strap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whack | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 whack | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whack | past · do-support | Dude | Jem | with straps; actually property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent jem=Patient with strap=Instrument |
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
Nah, rods, not that hard, Jem stayed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 rods | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hard | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rods | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
| 9 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | nsubj |
| 10 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | rods | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, straps, proper hard, Jem bolted crying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 straps | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 straps | punct |
| 3 | straps | strap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bolted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hard | punct |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 straps | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hard | punct |
| 8 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bolted | nsubj |
| 9 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bolted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolt | past | straps | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | straps not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, he just shouted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 shouted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 shouted | advmod |
| 5 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | he | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, belt, pretty hard, Jem ran off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 belt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 belt | punct |
| 3 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hard | punct |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 belt | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 belt | punct |
| 8 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | belt | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1791-pg641-part42/t1/