Test 11 · ★ · Grimm, The Water of Life, part 50: Dummling's three tasks…
Chill, why did the second brother go do the same thing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: chill, do, go · To what, where: second brother, same thing
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 774 «Grimm, The Water of Life, part 50: Dummling's three tasks end, and the youngest prince wins the dwarf's help» 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 | Chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brother | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | xcomp |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Chill | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | imperative | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the second brother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | present | the same thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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 become sole heir to the throne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 become | mark |
| 2 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heir | amod |
| 4 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 become | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 throne | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 throne | det |
| 7 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 become | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | to-infinitive | sole heir | to the throne | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
to get the kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus |
Option 3
because he wants the kingdom for himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 3 wants | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wants | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | he | the kingdom | for himself = he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kingdom=Theme |
Option 4
to become king too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 become | mark |
| 2 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 become | xcomp |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 become | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | to-infinitive | king | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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