Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Proper cool, but what made the water split open?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: water · What happens: make, split

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 cool	advmod
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cool	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 split	nsubj
9	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	ccomp
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 split	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past							tree rules
2	split	past	the water					open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

The dwarf's wand touched the waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarf	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dwarf	case
4	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 waves	det
7	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 touched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	the dwarf's wand	the waves					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wave=Co-Theme

Option 2

The dwarf shouted a spell and the river heard him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarf	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouted	nsubj
3	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heard	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shouted	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	the dwarf	a spell					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic
2	hear	past	the river	dwarf					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

The trumpeter blew a loud note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trumpeter	det
2	trumpeter	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 note	det
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 note	amod
6	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the trumpeter	a loud note					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent note=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The flute-player's magic beard pulled on the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 player	det
2	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 player	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 flute	punct
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beard	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 player	case
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	amod
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 beard	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle		the flute player's magic beard not said here				on the water	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on water=Theme

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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