Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

Mate, what did the little lad build out of wood bits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little lad · What happens: build out · To what, where: Mate, wood bits

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 build	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 build	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 build	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 build	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lad	amod
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 build	nsubj
8	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 bits	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bits	case
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bits	compound
12	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 build	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build out	past · do-support	the little lad	Mate		wood bits			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary bit=Product

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

a little feeding bin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bin	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bin	amod
3	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bin	compound
4	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a proper long trough for the whole family to eat from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trough	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trough	amod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trough	amod
4	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 family	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 family	amod
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trough	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trough	acl
11	from	from	ADP	_	10 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a proper wooden bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bowl	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bowl	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bowl	amod
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a proper little trough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trough	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trough	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trough	amod
4	trough	trough	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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