Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

Bare sus, what did the mayor make the cow-herd cough up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bare sus, cow herd · What happens: do, make, cough up · To what, where: mayor, cow herd

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sus	amod
2	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sus	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mayor	det
7	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 herd	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 herd	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 cow	punct
12	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
13	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 cough	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bare sus	the mayor	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mayor=Eventuality
2	make	present	Bare sus	the cow herd	tree rules
3	cough up	infinitive	the cow herd not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

his cow for the herd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cow	nmod:poss
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 herd	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 herd	det
5	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cow	nmod

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

Option 2

a fine brown cow for the lost calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cow	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cow	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cow	amod
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 calf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 calf	det
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 calf	amod
8	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cow	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a goat for the calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 calf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 calf	det
5	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goat	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a cow for the calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 calf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 calf	det
5	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cow	nmod

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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