Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 31: the wicked pair are punis…

Why was the King so chuffed about the gold, was it the shine or the money?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King, gold · What happens: be, chuff · To what, where: shine

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 128 «Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 31: the wicked pair are punished, and a Miller's daughter must spin straw into gold» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 shine	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chuffed	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 chuffed	advmod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 gold	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gold	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuffed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shine	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shine	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shine	det
14	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 money	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 money	det
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shine	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 shine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			why property	tree rules
2	chuff	past	the King		about the gold	tree rules
3	is a	past	gold	the shine or the money		tree rules

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

He was greedy, he wanted more gold even though he already had loads of riches stored away

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 greedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	cop
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	parataxis
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 gold	advmod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	obj
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	advcl
14	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 riches	case
16	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 loads	nmod
17	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 riches	acl
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 stored	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		greedy property	tree rules
2	want	past	he	gold		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme
3	have	past	he	loads of riches		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient
4	store away	participle		riches not said here	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was greedy, he wanted more gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 greedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	cop
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	parataxis
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 gold	advmod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					greedy property	tree rules
2	want	past	he	gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 3

It was the money and the shine both, plus the pride of having the richest kingdom in the land

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 money	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 money	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shine	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shine	det
7	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	conj
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 shine	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pride	punct
10	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	12 pride	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pride	det
12	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	conj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 having	mark
14	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 pride	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kingdom	det
16	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 kingdom	amod
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 having	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 land	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 land	det
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 having	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the money and the shine both plus the pride					tree rules
2	have	gerund	the pride not said here	the richest kingdom		the land			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient

Option 4

Because gold is really pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 pretty	mark
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pretty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pretty	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 pretty	advmod
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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