Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

Lowkey, what did the raven eat, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raven · What happens: eat · To what, where: Lowkey

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 eat	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 raven	det
6	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lowkey	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 eat	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support	the raven	Lowkey					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

a poisoned horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a sick grey mule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mule	det
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mule	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mule	amod
4	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the bones of a poisoned horse from the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bones	det
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 horse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bones	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 stable	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stable	det
9	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horse	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a horse that the King had poisoned himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 poisoned	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 poisoned	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 poisoned	aux
7	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 horse	acl:relcl
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 poisoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	past · perfect	the King	King					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

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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