Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

Innit mad that they picked him to be Pope?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: pick, be · To what, where: him, Pope

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mad	compound
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 picked	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 picked	nsubj
5	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mad	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 picked	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 Pope	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 Pope	cop
9	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 picked	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	they	him = he					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	is a	to-infinitive	they not said here	Pope					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

He was a holy man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a holy man					tree rules

Option 2

Three doves flew around him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 doves	nummod
2	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Three doves					around him = he	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two white doves sat on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 doves	nummod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doves	amod
3	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Two white doves					on him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The cardinals chose him at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cardinals	det
2	cardinals	cardinal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chose	nsubj
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chose	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 chose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	the cardinals	him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at once=Asset

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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