Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the…

bro the peasant chicks broke their arms in the hoop, that's brutal?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, that · What happens: break, be · To what, where: arms, hoop

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 105 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the crown with a carpet, a ring and a bride; then Snow-White begins» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chicks	det
3	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chicks	amod
4	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bro	conj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 broke	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hoop	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hoop	det
10	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brutal	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 brutal	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 brutal	cop
14	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 broke	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	bro and the peasant chicks	bro's arms		the hoop			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient
2	is	present	that					brutal property	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

nope, they all jumped fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jumped	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 jumped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	they					fine property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they fell and broke them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 broke	cc
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	they						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break	past	they not said here	them = they					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

Option 3

yeah, they fell and got hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hurt	cc
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux:pass
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	they						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hurt	past · passive	they not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they fell over and broke their arms and legs badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 broke	cc
7	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arms	nmod:poss
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 broke	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 legs	cc
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 arms	conj
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 broke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	past	they					over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break	past	they not said here	their arms and legs				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient

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