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

Why did the rich brother come round anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich brother · What happens: come round

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come round	past · do-support	the rich brother					anyway, round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

cos he wanted the magic stuff, the ram and the sack and all

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	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stuff	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ram	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ram	det
9	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sack	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sack	det
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 all	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 cos	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the magic stuff					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos he wanted the magic stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stuff	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	cos	the magic stuff					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cos he fancied a proper dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fancied	nsubj
3	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dinner	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dinner	amod
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	cos	a proper dinner					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus

Option 4

cos he was after the ram lot

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	7 lot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lot	cop
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 lot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lot	det
6	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lot	compound
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	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			after the ram lot		tree rules

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