Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked…
Yo, what's the fox asking Chanticleer on the road, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: fox, Chanticleer, road
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 739 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked in a tower, and a prince learns how to climb up to her» 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 | _ | 6 fox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 fox | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fox | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 fox | acl |
| 8 | Chanticleer | chanticleer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asking | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 asking | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 fox | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the fox not said here | Chanticleer | the road | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chanticleer=Recipient |
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
Can I come along?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | can | I | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Shall we go home?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | we | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
May I go with you?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | may | I | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Can you show me the way to the mill?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 show | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mill | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mill | det |
| 9 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | can | you | the way | me | to the mill | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic |
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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