Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…
Lowkey the fisherman's wife was kinda extra, but what was she askin' for at the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: she askin
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1938 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greedy wife wants to be emperor, then pope, then god, and ends back in her hut» 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 | Lowkey | Lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fisherman | det |
| 3 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 fisherman | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extra | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 extra | cop |
| 7 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 8 extra | advmod |
| 8 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 askin | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 askin | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 askin | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 askin | cop |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 askin | compound |
| 14 | askin | askin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extra | conj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 askin | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 askin | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 extra | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lowkey's wife | extra, kinda property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | she askin | for the end | 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
be pope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pope | cop |
| 2 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | pope | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
to be a god
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 god | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 god | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | a god | tree rules |
Option 3
to be a pope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pope | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pope | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pope | det |
| 4 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | a pope | tree rules |
Option 4
a god
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 god | det |
| 2 | god | god | 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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