Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…
Our kid, what was the youth warned about at the fortress?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: be, warn · To what, where: youth, fortress
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 767 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was: the youth calms the dogs, hears the frogs, and becomes Pope» 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 kid | nmod:poss |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warned | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 youth | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 youth | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 youth | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kid | conj |
| 8 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 warned | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 fortress | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fortress | det |
| 12 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warned | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 warned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Our kid and the youth | the youth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | Our kid and the youth | the fortress | about property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
The tower was full of wild dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tower | det |
| 2 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dogs | case |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dogs | amod |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tower | of wild dogs; full property | tree rules |
Option 2
Savage dogs guarded the gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 guarded | nsubj |
| 3 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guarded | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past | Savage dogs | the gold | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Wild dogs inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 2 dogs | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Wolves had been seen there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 seen | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect · passive | Wolves | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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