Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

Be real, who did the king say the princess liked better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, princess · What happens: be, say, like · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 say	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 liked	nsubj
11	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 liked	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here	real property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	past	the princess	good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: 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

Another man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Somebody else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Somebody	advmod

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

Option 3

A stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Some other bloke she'd met at the fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 bloke	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bloke	amod
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
5	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	aux
6	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 bloke	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 fair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fair	det
9	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	she	some other bloke not said here		the fair			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Co-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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