Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

Was the servant's fiddle wicked or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fiddle · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wicked	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fiddle	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 servant	case
5	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wicked	nsubj
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wicked	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the servant's fiddle					wicked property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Mad good, made people sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 good	amod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Mad good	people					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	people not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dead good, made everyone dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 dance	compound
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		everyone dance					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dance=Product

Option 3

Pretty decent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 decent	advmod
2	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Proper cool, got folks moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 cool	advmod
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cool	punct
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
6	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 folks	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	cool	folks					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folk=Stimulus
2	move	gerund	folks not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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