Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

Be honest, who was sat in the corner bawling her eyes out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, corner · What happens: be, sit, bawl out · To what, where: corner, eyes

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sat	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	aux:pass
6	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 honest	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 corner	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corner	det
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	bawling	bawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 corner	acl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bawling	obj
13	out	out	ADV	_	10 bawling	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here			honest property	tree rules
2	sit	past · passive			the corner		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in corner=Location
3	bawl out speech: other	gerund	the corner not said here	her eyes		out property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic

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

the kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the stepmum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepmum	det
2	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

little Marleen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Marleen	amod
2	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	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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