Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

ngl, the field-mouse basically threatened Tiny with her teeth, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: threaten · To what, where: Tiny

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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	8 threatened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 field	punct
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threatened	nsubj
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 threatened	advmod
8	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 threatened	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teeth	nmod:poss
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threatened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	8 threatened	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 threatened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	ngl	Tiny				with mouse's teeth; basically property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tiny=Experiencer

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

nah, no biting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 biting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 biting	det
4	biting	biting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

yep, she tried to pinch her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pinch	mark
6	pinch	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pinch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	she						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pinch not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	her = she					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

nope, she only scolded her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 scolded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scolded	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 scolded	advmod
5	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scolded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	she	her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, she said she'd bite her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bite	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bite	aux
7	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bite	would	she	her = she					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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