Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

Bruh, why did the courtiers say they were quitting?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: courtiers · What happens: say, quit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 courtiers	det
6	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 quitting	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 quitting	aux
10	quitting	quit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the courtiers						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	quit	past · progressive	courtiers = courtier						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

they wanted to see the giants fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giants	det
6	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fight	nsubj
7	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	want	past	they	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	fight	present	the giants	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

they would not stay with a man who had killed seven flies with one hand

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stay	advmod
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 man	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flies	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 killed	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	aux
10	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	acl:relcl
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 killed	obj
12	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	parataxis
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hand	nummod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not stay	would	they			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past · perfect · passive		a man		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer seven=Result
3	fly	present			with a man; with one hand	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they would not keep company with a man who kills seven at one blow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 keep	advmod
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 kills	nsubj
10	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 kills	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 blow	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 blow	nummod
14	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	would	they	company				with a man	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
2	kill	present	a man	seven		one blow			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme

Option 4

the King was cruel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cruel	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cruel	cop
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King					cruel property	tree rules

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