Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…
what did the king promise, like, for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: king promise
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 promise | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | compound |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 7 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 promise | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 real | case |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 did | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king promise | for real | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=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
his daughter to marry and a whole kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 marry | mark |
| 4 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 daughter | acl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kingdom | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kingdom | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kingdom | amod |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
his daughter to marry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 marry | mark |
| 4 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 daughter | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
half his kingdom, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 kingdom | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bro | punct |
| 5 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kingdom | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his youngest daughter to marry, for real, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 marry | mark |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 real | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 real | case |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 marry | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cap | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 cap | det |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 real | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | to-infinitive | his youngest daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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