Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…
The dwarf gave him three wishes, innit? What did he pick first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dwarf, three wishes · What happens: give, innit, pick · To what, where: three wishes, him
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 758 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush» 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
Sentence 1: The dwarf gave him three wishes, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dwarf | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 wishes | nummod |
| 6 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wishes | acl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the dwarf | three wishes | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wish=Theme | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | three wishes not said here | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: What did he pick first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 pick | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pick | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pick | nsubj |
| 4 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 pick | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past · do-support | dwarf | first property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A wish that brings gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wish | det |
| 2 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 brings | nsubj |
| 4 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wish | acl:relcl |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brings | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | a wish | gold | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A bow that hits everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bow | det |
| 2 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hits | nsubj |
| 4 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bow | acl:relcl |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 hits | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | present | a bow | everything | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Co-Theme |
Option 3
A fiddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fiddle | det |
| 2 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A bow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bow | det |
| 2 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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