Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre…
Was the butler still sipping his ale, like, mint?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: butler · What happens: sip · To what, where: ale
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sipping | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 butler | det |
| 3 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sipping | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 sipping | advmod |
| 5 | sipping | sip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ale | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sipping | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 ale | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mint | punct |
| 11 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ale | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sipping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sip | past · progressive | the butler | butler's ale and mint | still | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient |
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
nah, he was gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 gone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | gone property | tree rules |
Option 2
yep, frozen mid-sip with his cup up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 frozen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | mid-sip | mid-sip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frozen | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 cup | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cup | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frozen | obl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 frozen | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze up | participle | mid-sip | with his cup | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mid-sip=Patient with cup=Instrument |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yep, frozen mid-sip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 mid-sip | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mid-sip | amod |
| 4 | mid-sip | mid-sip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
nope, he dropped the cup and ran off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 dropped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cup | det |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | the cup | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run off | past | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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