Test 13 · ★ · Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the…

Lol, what does "livelihood" even mean?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 729 «Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the animals' noisy concert» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 livelihood	punct
6	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 livelihood	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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

Your food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 food	nmod:poss
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The way you pay your rent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obl:unmarked
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 pay	nsubj
4	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 rent	nmod:poss
6	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	you	the way					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
2	rent		your						nom rent «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The place you sleep at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	nsubj
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	the place				night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The way you earn your food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 earn	obl:unmarked
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 earn	nsubj
4	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 earn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	present	you	the way					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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