Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves…
Who rowed like mad to get the old King, was it the servant?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: row, get, be · To what, where: old King, servant
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 rowed | nsubj |
| 2 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 mad | case |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rowed | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rowed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 King | amod |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 servant | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 servant | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 servant | det |
| 14 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rowed | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 rowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | like mad | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the old King | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | it | the servant | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the servant, dead loyal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 servant | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 servant | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servant | det |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 servant | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loyal | amod |
| 7 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 servant | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, the guards, dead lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 guards | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guards | det |
| 4 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guards | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guards | amod |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 guards | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | the guards not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, the captain, dead lazy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 captain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 captain | det |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lazy | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lazy | amod |
| 7 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 captain | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, the Queen, dead bored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 Queen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Queen | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bored | amod |
| 7 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Queen | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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