Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…

Did the lad get in bother or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: get · To what, where: lad, bother

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lad	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bother	case
6	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 get	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present		the lad		bother			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

the dad scolded him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scolded	nsubj
3	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scolded	obj

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

Option 2

the dad scolded him and sent him to the sexton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scolded	nsubj
3	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scolded	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scolded	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sexton	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sexton	det
10	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	the dad	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	send	past	the dad not said here	dad		the sexton			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sexton=Destination

Option 3

the dad hugged him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hugged	nsubj
3	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hugged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	the dad	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 4

the dad was angry and sent him to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dad					angry property	tree rules
2	send	past	the dad not said here	him = he		bed			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bed=Destination

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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