Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, part 1: a girl sets…

ngl, what did the moon say about her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, moon · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 778 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, part 1: a girl sets out to free her seven brothers, who were turned into ravens» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	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	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the moon					about ngl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

I see her ring here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ring	nmod:poss
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	I	her ring		here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

I smell flesh and blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 smell	nsubj
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blood	cc
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flesh	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	I	flesh and blood					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flesh=Stimulus

Option 3

I smell blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 smell	nsubj
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	I	blood					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus

Option 4

I hear a human voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voice	det
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	a human voice					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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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