Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Clever Tailor: the tai…

the golden apples? who kept stealing them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: golden apples · What happens: keep, steal · To what, where: golden apples, apples

This is test 9 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 apples	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apples	amod
3	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stealing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past		the golden apples					tree rules
2	steal	gerund	the golden apples not said here	apples = apple					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

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

Nobody knows, the story never says who it was.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 says	advmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	conj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	7 says	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 who	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 who	cop
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not say speech: assert	present	the story	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	story	tree rules

Option 2

The story hasn't said yet, but it's probably the bear, who loves gold, in the next chapter.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bear	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 bear	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bear	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bear	cop
11	probably	probably	ADV	_	13 bear	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 loves	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 loves	nsubj
16	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bear	acl:relcl
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 loves	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 chapter	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 chapter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chapter	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chapter	amod
22	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 loves	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the story		yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is a	present	story	the bear			probably property	tree rules
3	love	present	the bear	gold	the next chapter			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The story hasn't said yet, it's in the next bit about the mermaid and the golden fish.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bit	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bit	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bit	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 bit	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bit	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bit	amod
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 mermaid	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mermaid	det
16	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fish	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fish	det
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fish	amod
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mermaid	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the story			yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is	present	story			the next bit		about the mermaid and the golden fish	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The story hasn't said yet, it's the next bit about the mermaid

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bit	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bit	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bit	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 mermaid	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mermaid	det
15	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the story			yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is a	present	story	the next bit				about the mermaid	tree rules

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