Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

What's Elsie's big mistake, like, in one word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big mistake

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mistake	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mistake	cop
3	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mistake	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Elsie	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mistake	amod
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	6 mistake	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 word	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 word	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 word	nummod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistake	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mistake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Elsie's big mistake					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

Dozing off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dozing	doze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Dozing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	gerund							vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Falling asleep in the corn field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Falling	xcomp
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 field	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 field	compound
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund				the corn field		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location

Option 4

Sleeping instead of cutting the corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 cutting	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sleeping	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corn	det
6	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cutting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut	gerund		the corn					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product

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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