Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…

Proper, why'd the people reckon the younger lad was a burden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people, younger lad · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: burden

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	7 reckon	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 reckon	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lad	det
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 lad	amod
10	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burden	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 burden	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 burden	det
13	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	would	the people					properly property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the younger lad	a burden					tree rules

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

cos he kept asking silly questions all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 questions	amod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asking	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	cos						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	cos not said here	silly questions			day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

Option 2

cos he was always hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				always, hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

cos he was too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				loud property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos he could learn nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 learn	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	could	he	nothing					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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