Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins…

Was the wife actually sulky at the start?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: start

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1100 «Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sulky	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sulky	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 sulky	advmod
5	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 start	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 start	det
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sulky	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sulky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wife			the start		actually, sulky 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

yeah, she was dead grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grumpy	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grumpy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grumpy	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grumpy	amod
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she was proper sulky and gave him the cold shoulder all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sulky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sulky	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sulky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sulky	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sulky	amod
6	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sulky	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoulder	det
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shoulder	amod
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sulky property	tree rules
2	give	past	she not said here	the cold shoulder	him = he		day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shoulder=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was proper sulky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sulky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sulky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sulky	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sulky	amod
6	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

yeah, she was proper sulky, then the henchmen sorted her out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sulky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sulky	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sulky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sulky	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sulky	amod
6	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sorted	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 sorted	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 henchmen	det
10	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sorted	nsubj
11	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sulky	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sorted	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 sorted	compound:prt
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sulky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sulky property	tree rules
2	sort out	past	the henchmen	her = she			then		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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