Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…
Susan was going to church with sausages for her aunt, weren't she?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Susan · What happens: go, not be · To what, where: church, she
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1936 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part 73: the cruel brothers are banished, and the old cat and dog join the fox's war» 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 | Susan | Susan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 church | mark |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sausages | case |
| 7 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 church | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 aunt | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 10 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sausages | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 she | cop |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 she | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 going | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | Susan | church with sausages for Susan's aunt | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | she | tree rules |
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
Yeah, to the cat in the next village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cat | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 cat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 village | amod |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, she was taking them to her uncle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 taking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taking | aux |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taking | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 uncle | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · progressive | she | them = they | her uncle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to uncle=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, to her aunt in the neighbouring town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 aunt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 aunt | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 aunt | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 5 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | neighbouring | neighbouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 town | compound |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aunt | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, to her cousin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cousin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cousin | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 cousin | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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