Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

Dead funny, what did the peasant reckon the raven could foretell?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peasant, raven · What happens: reckon, foretell

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reckon	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reckon	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peasant	det
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 foretell	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 raven	det
10	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 foretell	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 foretell	aux
12	foretell	foretell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 foretell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the peasant						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	foretell	could	the raven						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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

four things, then the fifth's a secret that costs three hundred talers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 things	nummod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 secret	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 secret	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fifth	det
6	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secret	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 secret	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 secret	det
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 things	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 costs	nsubj
11	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 secret	acl:relcl
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 talers	nummod
14	talers	taler	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 costs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fifth	a secret			then		tree rules
2	cost	present	a secret	hundred talers					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme taler=Value

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

four things, then the fifth's a secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 things	nummod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 secret	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 secret	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fifth	det
6	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secret	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 secret	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 secret	det
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 things	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fifth	a secret			then		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a fake prophecy about the weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prophecy	det
2	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prophecy	amod
3	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 weather	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weather	det
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prophecy	nmod

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

Option 4

the raven knew the fifth thing too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the raven	the fifth thing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=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.

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