Test 2 · ★ · Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest s…
wait, the eldest bro actually shot at the fox, right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, eldest bro · What happens: wait, shoot
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 725 «Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest son catches the bird, is caught, and must fetch a golden horse» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shot | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bro | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 bro | amod |
| 5 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shot | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 shot | advmod |
| 7 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 fox | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fox | det |
| 10 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shot | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shot | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 wait | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shoot | past | the eldest bro | at the fox; actually property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at fox=Destination |
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
Yeah, but he totally missed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 missed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 missed | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 missed | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 missed | nsubj |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 missed | advmod |
| 6 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | he | totally property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Yeah, but he hit its tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 hit | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | he | its tail | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tail=Co-Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he never tried
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 tried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 tried | advmod |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try | past | he | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, and he hit the fox badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hit | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obj |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | he | the fox | badly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fox=Co-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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