Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Clever Tailor: the tai…

did the bear learn fiddling or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: learn, fiddle

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1933 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Clever Tailor: the tailor guesses the Princess's hair and tames the bear» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fiddling	fiddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 learn	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fiddling	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · do-support	the bear						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fiddle	gerund	the bear not said here						vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, it just sat, lol.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	it						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the tailor just locked its paws in stocks and bounced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 locked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 locked	advmod
6	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 paws	nmod:poss
8	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 locked	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 stocks	case
10	stocks	stock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 locked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bounced	cc
12	bounced	bounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 locked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past	the tailor	tailor's paws		stocks			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
2	bounce	participle	the tailor not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it learned a tune.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 learned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 learned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learned	nsubj
4	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tune	det
6	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learned	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 learned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	it	a tune					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic

Option 4

Nah, the tailor just tied its paws with rope and ran off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 tied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 tied	advmod
6	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 paws	nmod:poss
8	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tied	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 rope	case
10	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tied	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 ran	compound:prt
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the tailor	tailor's paws				with rope	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient with rope=Co-Patient
2	run off	past	the tailor not said here						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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