Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins…

Wait, how did the rich brother smile when he said he'd come?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, rich brother, brother · What happens: wait, smile, say, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 smile	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 smile	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smile	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smile	nsubj
8	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 said	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smile	advcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	smile	past · do-support	the rich brother	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	brother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	would	brother	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

secretly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

secretly, behind his hand, like he was up to something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	5 hand	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 secretly	punct
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 something	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 something	case
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 something	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 something	cop
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 was	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 something	case
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 hand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					like something	tree rules

Option 3

secretly, while he was still busy threshing wheat in the barn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	7 busy	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 secretly	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 busy	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 busy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 busy	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 busy	advmod
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	threshing	thresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 busy	advcl
9	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threshing	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 barn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 barn	det
12	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threshing	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 busy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				still	busy, secretly property	tree rules
2	thresh	gerund	he not said here	wheat		the barn			tree rules

Option 4

quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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