Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

so what did the old lady say to do at the fire, like exactly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: say, do · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 exactly	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 exactly	case
15	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the old lady						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the old lady not said here			the fire		exactly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

stamp on it with the cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stamp	nmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stamp	nmod

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

Option 2

put out the fire with the napkins and then run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 put	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 put	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 napkins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 napkins	det
7	napkins	napkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 put	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 run	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 run	advmod
10	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 put	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	imperative	you not said here	the fire				with the napkins	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal
2	run	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

hit it three times with napkins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hit	obj
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hit	obl:unmarked
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 napkins	case
6	napkins	napkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	it			time	with napkins	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with napkin=Instrument

Option 4

throw the napkins into it and step back quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 napkins	det
3	napkins	napkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 throw	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 throw	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 step	cc
7	step	step	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 throw	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 step	advmod
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 step	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	the napkins				into it result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer napkin=Theme into it=Result
2	step back	infinitive	you not said here					quickly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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