Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

Innit, why was the peasant out in the storm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: be · To what, where: peasant, storm

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 peasant	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Innit	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 peasant	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 peasant	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 storm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storm	det
10	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peasant	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 peasant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Innit	the peasant		the storm			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 · ✓ the right answer

to sell the cow skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 sell	mark
2	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skin	compound
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive		the cow skin					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

Option 2

to trade the cow hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 trade	mark
2	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hide	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	compound
5	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trade	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	to-infinitive		the cow hide					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme

Option 3

to get money for the cow skin and the raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 skin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	compound
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 raven	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 raven	det
10	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		money				for the cow skin and the raven	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for skin=Source

Option 4

to sell hides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 sell	mark
2	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive		hides					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=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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