Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal ta…

Yo, who held the mussel in its mouth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: hold · To what, where: mussel, mouth

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1932 «Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal talk and the animals repay his kindness» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 held	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mussel	det
6	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past		the mussel		mussel's mouth			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mussel=Theme in mouth=Location

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

the middle fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the middle fish which the servant freed from the net

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 freed	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 servant	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	conj
7	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 net	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 net	det
10	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 freed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	servant		the middle fish and the servant						tree rules
2	free	past	the middle fish and the servant			the net			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 3

the small fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the largest fish, the one who had sworn to repay him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	appos
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sworn	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sworn	aux
9	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 one	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 repay	mark
11	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sworn	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 repay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · perfect	the one						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	repay	to-infinitive	the one not said here		fish				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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