Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

so what did the dad tell the mom to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: mom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dad	det
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mom	det
8	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 mom	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the dad		the mom				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient mom=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	the dad not said here						vn act-114-1 «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

go to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 bed	case
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 2

fetch the beer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beer	det
3	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	the beer					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme

Option 3

bring Elsie the beer now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beer	det
4	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	the beer	Elsie		now		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent elsie=Destination beer=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

go see where Elsie is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 go	xcomp
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 is	advmod
4	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	present	Elsie	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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