Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…
Did Jorindel just stand there like a statue, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: stand · To what, where: Jorindel
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 728 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a maiden into a nightingale, and her shepherd lover wins her back» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Jorindel | aux |
| 2 | Jorindel | Jorindel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obl |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 stand | advmod |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stand | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 statue | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 statue | det |
| 8 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 stand | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | Jorindel | there | like a statue | vn assuming_position-50 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was frozen stiff like a stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 frozen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 frozen | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frozen | aux:pass |
| 5 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 frozen | xcomp |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frozen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past · passive | he | like a stone; stiff property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
Option 2
Nah, he danced about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 danced | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 danced | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | he | about property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he was stuck like a statue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuck | aux:pass |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 statue | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 statue | det |
| 8 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past · passive | he | like a statue | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
Option 4
Nah, he was walking about proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 walking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 walking | advmod |
| 7 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 walking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | he | about, properly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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