Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins…

What was the rich brother doing when he saw his brother?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich brother, he · What happens: be, do, see · To what, where: brother

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
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	1 What	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 brother	acl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the rich brother		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the rich brother not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	he	his brother	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus

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

threshing wheat on his floor with the flail his sons had made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threshing	thresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threshing	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 floor	nmod:poss
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threshing	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 flail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flail	det
8	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threshing	obl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sons	nmod:poss
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 flail	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thresh	gerund		wheat		his floor		with the flail	tree rules
2	make	past · perfect · passive	the flail not said here	his sons					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

threshing wheat on his floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threshing	thresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threshing	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 floor	nmod:poss
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threshing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thresh	gerund		wheat		his floor			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

ploughing his big field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ploughing	plough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 field	nmod:poss
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 field	amod
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ploughing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plough	gerund		his big field					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location

Option 4

counting his gold in the barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 gold	nmod:poss
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 counting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 barn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barn	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 counting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		his gold		the barn			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

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