Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…
Right, what did the witch do when her dog got threatened?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: threaten · To what, where: dog
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threatened | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 threatened | aux |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 threatened | advmod |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dog | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threatened | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threatened | aux:pass |
| 12 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 threatened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past · passive · do-support | her dog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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
locked him in a cage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 locked | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cage | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cage | det |
| 5 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | him = he | a cage | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
turned him into rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 turned | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | him = he | rock | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into rock=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
turned him to stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 turned | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 stone | case |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | him = he | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
Option 4
cursed him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 cursed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | him = he | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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