Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

Bare, what did the lion want back for the rose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: want back

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 want	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bare	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 want	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 rose	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rose	det
11	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	past · do-support	the lion					for the rose	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

Whatever first meets him at the gate of home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 meets	obj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 meets	advmod
3	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meets	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present		Whatever		the gate of home		first property	tree rules

Option 2

The first thing he sees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sees	nsubj
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	he	the first thing not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Whatever meets him first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 meets	nsubj
2	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meets	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 meets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	Whatever	him = he				first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 4

Whatever creature first crosses his path on the road back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 crosses	obj
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crosses	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 crosses	advmod
4	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 path	nmod:poss
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crosses	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crosses	obl
10	back	back	ADV	_	4 crosses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	present	creature	Whatever		the road		first property	tree rules

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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