Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

Wicked, so who told him how to free the dogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 free	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 free	mark
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dogs	det
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 free	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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

An old wise monk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 monk	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monk	amod
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monk	amod
4	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nobody, he guessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 guessed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guessed	nsubj
4	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	Nobody						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dogs did, in their own language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 language	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 language	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 language	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 language	amod
8	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the dogs						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A passing old man in the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 yard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 yard	det
7	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP 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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