Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the…

Yo, what did the robbers think was in the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: think, be · To what, where: house

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 house	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the robbers						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				the house			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 · ← Mova's choice

A huge scary monster from the old tales, the kind that eats little kids, bruv

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 monster	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monster	amod
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monster	amod
4	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 tales	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tales	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tales	amod
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 monster	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	appos
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 eats	nsubj
13	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kind	acl:relcl
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kids	amod
15	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eats	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monster	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the kind	little kids					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

Option 2

A spooky hobgoblin, for real, with glowing red eyes and sharp claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hobgoblin	det
2	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hobgoblin	amod
3	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 real	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hobgoblin	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eyes	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
9	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 eyes	amod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 real	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 claws	cc
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 claws	amod
14	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eyes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A big bear from the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bear	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A spooky hobgoblin, for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hobgoblin	det
2	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hobgoblin	amod
3	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hobgoblin	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 real	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hobgoblin	nmod

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

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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