Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

Proper wicked, but which bro nicked the eggs from under the bird, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: nick · To what, where: eggs

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nicked	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 nicked	cc
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 bro	det
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nicked	nsubj
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wicked	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggs	det
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nicked	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 bird	case
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 bird	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nicked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 wicked	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	which bro	the eggs				from the bird	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from bird=Source

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

Proper wicked, the youngest brother did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	obj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The middle brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The eldest brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The one who was lazy and sat around all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lazy	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	conj
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the one					lazy property	tree rules
2	sit	past	the one not said here				day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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