Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…
Did the kids nick loads of stuff from the witch's house, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: nick · To what, where: loads, house
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kids | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kids | det |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nick | nsubj |
| 4 | nick | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nick | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stuff | case |
| 7 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loads | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 witch | case |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nick | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 nick | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 nick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | present | the kids | loads of stuff | the witch's house | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent load=Theme from house=Source |
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
Loads of pearls and jewels stuffed in their pinafores, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stuffed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 pearls | case |
| 3 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Loads | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 jewels | cc |
| 5 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pearls | conj |
| 6 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pinafores | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pinafores | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pinafores | pinafore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stuffed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fam | punct |
| 11 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pinafores | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff | participle | Loads of pearls and jewels | Loads's pinafores and fam | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pinafore=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pearls and jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 jewels | cc |
| 3 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pearls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Pearls, jewels, gold, and a big bag of bread and cakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jewels | punct |
| 3 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pearls | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gold | punct |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pearls | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bag | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bag | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bag | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bag | amod |
| 10 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pearls | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bread | case |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bag | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cakes | cc |
| 14 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pearls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Silver and gems
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gems | cc |
| 3 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Silver | conj |
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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