Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…

So Tom yelled loud to wake the house, yeah?

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

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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	_	3 yelled	advmod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 yelled	nsubj
3	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 yelled	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wake	mark
6	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 yelled	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wake	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 yelled	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 yelled	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 yelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	Tom					loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	the house					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient

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, he just whispered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 whispered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 whispered	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 whispered	advmod
5	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nope, quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, loud as he could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loud	punct
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Yup	amod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 could	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 could	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 loud	advcl

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

Option 4

Yup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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