Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Thumbling: the cook overhears, the co…

Bet the king wanted his daughter safe, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: bet, want · To what, where: daughter

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 119 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Thumbling: the cook overhears, the cow swallows him, and a wolf is cut open» 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	Bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bet	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 cap	det
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bet	imperative	you not said here						vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	want	past	the king	king's daughter				safe property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot daughter=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

Nah, he let her play with spindles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 spindles	case
8	spindles	spindle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	he	her = she					tree rules
2	play	infinitive	her = she not said here					with spindles	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with spindle=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he had every spindle destroyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spindle	det
6	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spindle	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	every spindle					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spindle=Patient
2	destroy	participle		every spindle not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he had every needle melted down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 needle	det
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 needle	acl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 melted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	every needle					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Patient
2	melt down	participle		every needle not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he had every spindle in the whole kingdom destroyed and burnt in the square

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spindle	det
6	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 kingdom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kingdom	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kingdom	amod
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 kingdom	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 burnt	cc
13	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 destroyed	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 square	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 square	det
16	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	he	every spindle	the whole kingdom	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spindle=Patient
2	destroy	participle		the whole kingdom not said here		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	burnt	participle			the square	tree rules

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