Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's d…

Lol, the bird was a total snitch, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: be · To what, where: total snitch

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 747 «Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's daughter escapes the robbers' house» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 snitch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snitch	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 snitch	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snitch	det
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snitch	amod
8	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snitch	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 snitch	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 snitch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the bird	a total snitch					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

Yeah, it told her to go back, kind of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 kind	dep

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	it		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nope, it just sang a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sang	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sang	advmod
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	it	a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it kept shouting warnings at her from the cage, and she still walked into the house anyway

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shouting	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shouting	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 cage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cage	det
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 walked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 walked	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 walked	nsubj
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 walked	advmod
16	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walked	obl
20	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	16 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it					tree rules
2	shout speech: express	gerund		warnings	the cage		at her = she	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Topic
3	walk	past	she			still	into the house result; anyway property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it screamed "turn back" at her twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 screamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 screamed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 screamed	nsubj
4	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 screamed	ccomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 turn	advmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 screamed	obl
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 screamed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	it					at her = she; twice property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn back in a quote	infinitive							vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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