Test 2 · ★ · Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize,…

lowkey, why were the brothers about to get hanged?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be, hange · To what, where: brothers

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 726 «Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize, Hans sets off home» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brothers	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 lowkey	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brothers	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 hanged	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	10 hanged	mark
9	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 hanged	aux:pass
10	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 brothers	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 brothers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lowkey	the brothers					tree rules
2	hange	to-infinitive · passive	lowkey not said here						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

Theft, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fr	punct
3	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Theft	conj

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

Option 2

They were thieves, lowkey tho

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thieves	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thieves	cop
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tho	punct
5	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tho	compound
6	tho	tho	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thieves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	thieves and lowkey tho					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They were robbers, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 robbers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 robbers	cop
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cap	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 robbers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	robbers				no cap nmod	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They stole from the king, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	They					from the king and no cap	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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