Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep…

Who was the proper hero of this bit, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: proper hero

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hero	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hero	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hero	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hero	amod
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bit	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hero	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hero	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hero	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the proper hero			then	of this bit	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

The brave bird in the cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cage	det
6	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The clever flute-player youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
3	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 player	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 flute	punct
5	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youth	compound
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The grey dwarf, who was clever and tricky and lost his beard in the end

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dwarf	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dwarf	amod
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clever	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 clever	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clever	cop
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dwarf	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tricky	cc
9	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clever	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clever	cc
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 beard	nmod:poss
13	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the grey dwarf			clever property	tree rules
2	be		the grey dwarf not said here				tree rules
3	lose	past	the grey dwarf	dwarf's beard	in the end		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Eventuality

Option 4

The clever flute-player youth who won the Princess's heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
3	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 player	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 flute	punct
5	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youth	compound
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 won	nsubj
8	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 youth	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 heart	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Princess	case
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the clever player youth	the Princess's heart					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality

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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