Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…
Bro, where did the miller's missus hide the roast meat?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, hide · To what, where: missus, roast meat
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bro | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 miller | det |
| 6 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 missus | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 miller | case |
| 8 | missus | missus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 meat | det |
| 11 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meat | compound |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hide | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 hide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the miller's missus | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent missus=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hide | present | Bro | the roast meat | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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 · ✓ the right answer
in the tiled stove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 stove | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stove | det |
| 3 | tiled | tile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stove | amod |
| 4 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tile | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
behind the kitchen door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 3 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
in the old bread box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 box | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | compound |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
under the tiled floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 floor | det |
| 3 | tiled | tile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 floor | amod |
| 4 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tile | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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