Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…

Wait, so the flounder keeps sayin' something, what's the lil line he says every time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, flounder, he · What happens: wait, keep, be, say · To what, where: something, lil line · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 keeps	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flounder	det
5	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	sayin	sayin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 something	compound
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 sayin	punct
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 keeps	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 line	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 line	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 line	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 line	det
14	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 line	amod
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 something	appos
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 line	acl:relcl
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	the flounder	something		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	is a	present		the lil line		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	he	the lil line not said here	time	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent line=Topic

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

Go home, your wife is already all she asks to be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asks	punct
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 all	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 all	cop
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 all	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 asks	obl:unmarked
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asks	nsubj
10	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present	wife	all		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be not said to happen	to-infinitive	all not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Return home; she is there now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Return	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 there	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Return	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Return	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	imperative	you not said here				now	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	she					there property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Go home; she is that already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 is	nsubj
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 already	mark
7	already	already	ADV	_	5 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Go back, she's that already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 that	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 that	cop
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Go	obl
7	already	already	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	she	that					tree rules

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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