Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…
Did he bring anything proper useful, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: bring, innit · To what, where: anything
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 741 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the tailor tricks the giants and wins a place at the king's court» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 useful | advmod |
| 6 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 anything | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bring | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | he | anything | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | he not said here | 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
Nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A squashed pear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pear | det |
| 2 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pear | amod |
| 3 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | participle | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Just bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 bread | advmod |
| 2 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An old cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cheese | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cheese | amod |
| 3 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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