Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom is sold,…

was Tom really driving the horse from inside its ear, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: be · To what, where: ear

This is test 3 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 driving	cop
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 driving	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 driving	advmod
4	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driving	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 ear	case
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 ear	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ear	nmod:poss
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driving	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fr	punct
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ear	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 driving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom			horse's ear and fr		drive 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

nah, just sat on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				it			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location

Option 2

nah, he rode on the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he			the back			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yep, he shouted go on and stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stop	cc
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	he						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	infinitive	he not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

yep, he whispered go and stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 whispered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whispered	nsubj
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 whispered	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stop	cc
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	infinitive		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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