Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

did the gnome get mad at the new people?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gnome · What happens: do, get

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» 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 gnome	det
3	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	ccomp
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mad	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the gnome					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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, he was super mad and wanted to chase all those people off his hills for good

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 chase	mark
10	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 people	det:predet
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chase	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 hills	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hills	nmod:poss
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chase	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 good	case
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chase	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			mad, super property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	chase not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	all people	his hills	for good	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme off hill=Trajectory

Option 2

yes, he got really upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 upset	advmod
6	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he was chill about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	cop
5	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about it; chill property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he was pretty mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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