Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

so wait, what's this dude even trying to learn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dude · What happens: wait, be, try, learn · To what, where: dude

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 wait	advmod
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dude	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 dude	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dude	cop
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 dude	det
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	obl
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 trying	advmod
9	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 dude	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 learn	mark
11	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		this dude	tree rules
3	try	gerund	this dude not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	this dude not said here		vn learn-14-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

how to dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 dance	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 dance	mark
3	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	to-infinitive							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

how to shudder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shudder	mark
3	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 how	nsubj

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

Option 3

how to fight ghosts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 fight	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 fight	mark
3	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	to-infinitive		ghosts					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Co-Agent

Option 4

how to nap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 nap	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 nap	mark
3	nap	nap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nap	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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