Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Yo, was the castle door left open or shut on the fiddler?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: castle door, fiddler

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 door	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 door	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 door	acl
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 shut	cc
10	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 open	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 fiddler	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fiddler	det
13	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 door	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the castle door					tree rules
2	leave	participle		the castle door not said here		the fiddler		open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on fiddler=Location

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

It slammed shut behind him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj:pass
2	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	aux:pass
3	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past · passive		It				behind him = he	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It slowly creaked shut after a long while behind him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj:pass
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 shut	advmod
3	creaked	creak	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	aux:pass
4	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 while	amod
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obl
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 while	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past · passive		It			while	slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

It was bolted by a dwarf from the inside of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bolted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bolted	aux:pass
3	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 dwarf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dwarf	det
6	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bolted	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 inside	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 inside	det
9	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bolted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hall	det
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inside	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past · passive	a dwarf	It		the inside of the hall			vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It blew open in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 blew	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	It			the wind		open property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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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