Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's map…
Like, what did the man reckon the stick could do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, stick · What happens: reckon, do
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» 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 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 reckon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 reckon | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckon | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stick | det |
| 9 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reckon | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | could | the stick | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Open any door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | any door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
Option 2
Turn lead to gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | lead | gold | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lead=Theme to gold=Trajectory |
Option 3
Open any door it touched, no matter how locked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | obj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 door | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 matter | det |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | obl |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 locked | advmod |
| 10 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Open | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | any door | no matter obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | touch | past | door | any door not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | lock | participle | you not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Make him invisible
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | him = he | invisible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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