Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 19: John is t…

Innit mental that the King cut off his own kids' heads?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, King · What happens: innit, cut off · To what, where: heads

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 116 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 19: John is turned to stone, then brought back to life with blood; three princes set out for the water of life» 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	Innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Innit	xcomp
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 cut	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mental	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kids	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kids	amod
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heads	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 kids	case
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here					mental property	tree rules
2	cut off	past	the King	King's own kids's heads					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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, it's proper mental, but then they healed and ran off to play, so it all worked out in the end

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 mental	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mental	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mental	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mental	amod
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 worked	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 healed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 healed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 healed	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 healed	nsubj
11	healed	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mental	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 healed	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 play	mark
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ran	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 worked	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 worked	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 worked	nsubj
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 worked	advmod
21	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 worked	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 end	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 end	det
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		mental property	tree rules
2	heal	past	they	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	run off	past	they not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work out	past	proper mental	in the end	all property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, the kids were fine after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	6 fine	case

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

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

Yeah, but it brought John back, so it's wicked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 brought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 brought	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wicked	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 wicked	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wicked	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wicked	cop
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	it		John				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument john=Destination
2	is	present	it					wicked property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, the King didn't do it, it was John who swapped the heads so the kids would live on

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 John	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 John	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 John	cop
12	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 swapped	nsubj
14	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heads	det
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swapped	obj
17	so	so	SCONJ	_	21 live	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kids	det
19	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 live	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 live	aux
21	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 swapped	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not do	past · do-support	the King	it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is a	past	it	John	tree rules
3	swap	past		the heads	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	live on	would	the kids		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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