Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Mate, how did the trumpeter look after getting smashed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trumpeter · What happens: look, smash

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 look	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trumpeter	det
6	trumpeter	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 smashed	mark
9	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 smashed	aux:pass
10	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 look	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the trumpeter						tree rules
2	smash	gerund · passive	the trumpeter not said here						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»

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 · ✓ the right answer

Like a squashed rabbit in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 rabbit	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
3	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rabbit	amod
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rabbit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	participle							vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Crying like a baby child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 child	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 child	compound
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund						like a baby child	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Pale and sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sick	cc
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pale	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Shaking like a wet dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 dog	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund						like a wet dog	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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