Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…

When did his bride dump the fish water on him, at night or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bride · What happens: dump · To what, where: fish water

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dump	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dump	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bride	nmod:poss
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dump	nsubj
5	dump	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dump	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dump	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dump	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 night	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump	past · do-support	his bride	the fish water			night	on him = he	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme on he=Trajectory

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

at the wedding feast, in front of all the guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	4 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	compound
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 front	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 guests	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 guests	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guests	det
11	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 front	nmod

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

Option 2

every morning, pouring water from the brook over him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pouring	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
4	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pouring	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 brook	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brook	det
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pouring	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pouring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	gerund		water		the brook	morning	over him = he	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from brook=Initial_Location

Option 3

during the night's rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	during	during	ADP	_	5 rest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 night	case
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

at night, while he slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 slept	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slept	nsubj
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he				night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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