Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom is sold,…

so was the bridegroom bad or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bridegroom · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 748 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom is sold, tricks thieves, and naps in the hay» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 bad	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bridegroom	det
4	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bad	nsubj
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bad	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bridegroom					bad property	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

nope, he was just a poor farmer's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	10 son	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 son	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 son	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	10 son	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farmer	amod
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 farmer	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a poor farmer's son					tree rules

Option 2

yeah, a cruel knight in court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 knight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knight	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knight	det
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knight	amod
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 court	case
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knight	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, a murderer, condemned to death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 murderer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 murderer	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 murderer	det
4	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 condemned	punct
6	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 murderer	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 condemned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	condemn	participle		a murderer not said here				to death	vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, a murderer who was condemned to death after his whole band was caught

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 murderer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 murderer	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 murderer	det
4	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 caught	nsubj:pass
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 condemned	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 condemned	aux:pass
7	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 murderer	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 death	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 condemned	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 band	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 band	nmod:poss
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 band	amod
13	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 condemned	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 caught	aux:pass
15	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	condemn	past · passive		a murderer			after his whole band	to death	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	catch	past · passive		a murderer					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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