Test 12 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…
Was Jem scared when the goose spoke, or dead brave?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goose · What happens: be, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | cop |
| 2 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | compound |
| 3 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 goose | det |
| 6 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brave | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 brave | cc |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brave | amod |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scared | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | scared property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the goose | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | 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
Scared, he dropped the basket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dropped | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | the basket | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
Option 2
Brave, he kept the cage up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brave | brave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brave | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cage | det |
| 6 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 kept | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep up | past | he | Brave | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cage=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Scared, he put the cage down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 put | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cage | det |
| 6 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | he | the cage | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cage=Goal |
Option 4
Scared, he ran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scared | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | 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 | run | past | he | 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.
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