Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Father Grumbler, part 15: Grumbler shows off a…

Did the cock actually work when he tried it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, work, try · To what, where: cock, it

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1214 «Fairy Book, Father Grumbler, part 15: Grumbler shows off a magic cock, and the innkeepers plot to steal it» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cock	det
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tried	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tried	nsubj
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 work	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tried	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the cock		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Eventuality
2	work	present			actually property	tree rules
3	try	past	he	it		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it crowed loud and dropped gold and diamonds, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 crowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crowed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crowed	nsubj
4	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crowed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dropped	cc
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crowed	conj
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 diamonds	cc
10	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gold	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	it					loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past		gold and diamonds and bro					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2

Nah, mate, it crowed a bit and then went quiet, so he got nothing and had to walk all the way back home.

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 crowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crowed	nsubj
6	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crowed	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crowed	conj
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 went	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crowed	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 got	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 got	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 walk	mark
21	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 way	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walk	obl:unmarked
25	back	back	ADV	_	21 walk	advmod
26	home	home	ADV	_	21 walk	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	mate	a bit			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	mate not said here		then	quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	he	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	have	past	he not said here				tree rules
5	walk	to-infinitive	he not said here	all way		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it crowed and dropped gold, bro.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 crowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crowed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crowed	nsubj
4	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dropped	cc
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crowed	conj
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gold	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	it						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past		gold and bro					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, bro, it crowed really loud and dropped gold and diamonds all over the table, just like the Holy Man had said it would.

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bro	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crowed	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crowed	nsubj
6	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 loud	advmod
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crowed	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dropped	cc
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crowed	conj
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 diamonds	cc
13	diamonds	diamond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dropped	conj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 table	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 diamonds	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
19	just	just	ADV	_	25 said	advmod
20	like	like	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Man	det
22	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	23 Man	compound
23	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 dropped	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 would	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crow	past	bro			bro vocative; loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past	bro not said here	gold			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
3	diamond	present	bro not said here		the table		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the Holy Man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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