Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

why'd the youth cut the dogs' chains?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: cut · To what, where: chains

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cut	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chains	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 dogs	case
9	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the youth	the dogs's chains					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product

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 free them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 free	mark
2	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 free	obj

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

Option 2

cos they were too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 loud	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loud	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					loud property	tree rules

Option 3

cos they bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bit	present	they	cos not said here					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos they went too far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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