Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…
Wait, what did the cardinals actually want?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cardinals · What happens: wait, do, want
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cardinals | det |
| 6 | cardinals | cardinal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 want | nsubj |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 want | advmod |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | want | present | the cardinals | actually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
A new Pope chosen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Pope | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Pope | amod |
| 3 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chosen | nsubj |
| 4 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | participle | a new Pope | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A proof that the youth was truly holy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 proof | det |
| 2 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holy | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 youth | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proof | acl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 holy | cop |
| 7 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 8 holy | advmod |
| 8 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a proof | holy, truly property | tree rules |
Option 3
A clear divine sign sent down from above
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sign | det |
| 2 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sign | amod |
| 3 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sign | compound |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sign | acl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sent | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 above | case |
| 8 | above | above | ADV | _ | 5 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send down | participle | a clear divine sign not said here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from above=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A sign from heaven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 heaven | case |
| 4 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sign | nmod |
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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