Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…
Bare sheep came up out the water though, how?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bare sheep · What happens: come up · To what, where: water
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 752 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless wife ruins the dinner, and the gold is stolen.» 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 sheep | amod |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | though | though | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 how | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Bare sheep | the water | though property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out water=Initial_Location |
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
He had pulled the bottom out of the barrel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | aux |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bottom | det |
| 5 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 barrel | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 barrel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 barrel | det |
| 9 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past · perfect · passive | He | the barrel | vn slide-11.2 «NP V NP.destination PP.initial_location»: subject=Destination bottom=Theme out barrel=Initial_Location |
Option 2
He floated up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 floated | nsubj |
| 2 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 floated | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float up | past | He | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
He cut a hole in the side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hole | det |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hole | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | He | a hole | the side | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The peasant had put a ladder in the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ladder | det |
| 6 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect · passive | the peasant | the water | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset ladder=Goal |
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