Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trad…

Dude, what did the griffin need the nut tree for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, need · To what, where: griffin, nut tree

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 769 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trades her golden dress for one night, but the prince sleeps through it» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Dude	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 griffin	det
6	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	7 need	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the griffin					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent griffin=Eventuality
2	need	present	Dude	the nut tree					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tree=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

to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fly	mark
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

to find some food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		some food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to rest on the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 rest	mark
2	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	to-infinitive				the way			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location

Option 4

to hide from the hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 hunt	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunt	det
5	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive				the hunt			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from hunt=Beneficiary

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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