Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…

Ay, what did the king hear the huntsmen say about the beast?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, huntsmen · What happens: hear, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	7 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 hear	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	nsubj
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 huntsmen	det
9	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 beast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beast	det
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	the king						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the huntsmen					about the beast	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 · ✓ the right answer

It had a thousand kinds of fur, mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kinds	det
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kinds	nummod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fur	case
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mad	punct
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kinds	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	a thousand kinds of fur					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient

Option 2

It had a thousand kinds of fur all sewn together, mad, proper mad

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thousand	det
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kinds	nummod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fur	case
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	conj
9	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 all	acl
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 sewn	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mad	punct
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sewn	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mad	punct
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mad	amod
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mad	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	thousand kinds of fur					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
2	sew	participle						mad, together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It had a thousand kinds of fur from every animal in the forest, mad

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thousand	det
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kinds	nummod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fur	case
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 animal	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mad	punct
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forest	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	thousand kinds of fur		the forest		from every animal	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient

Option 4

It had a thousand kinds of skin, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kinds	det
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kinds	nummod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 skin	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	a thousand kinds of skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/787-pg2591-part63/t12/