Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom is sold,…
what did the maid think had happened?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: maid · What happens: think, happen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maid | det |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 think | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · do-support | the maid | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
someone was hiding behind her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 hiding | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hiding | aux |
| 3 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hiding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · progressive | someone | her = she | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
she was dreaming with her eyes open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dreaming | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreaming | aux |
| 3 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dreaming | obl |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dreaming | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past · progressive | she | with her eyes; open property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
the thieves had sneaked in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thieves | det |
| 2 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sneaked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sneaked | aux |
| 4 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sneaked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak in | past · perfect · passive | the thieves | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
Option 4
she had seen a ghost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ghost | det |
| 5 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | she | a ghost | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/748-pg2591-part24/t9/