Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Thre…

so did her sisters actually give her the guts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: do, give · To what, where: guts, her

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 129 «Grimm's Household Tales, Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes, part 1: the Queen learns the Dwarf's name, then Two-Eyes finds a magic table and loses her goat» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sisters	nmod:poss
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guts	det
9	guts	gut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	give	present	her sisters	the guts	her = she			actually property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient gut=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

Nope, they laughed and kept them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	they not said here	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, they grinned and passed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grinned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grinned	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grinned	nsubj
4	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 passed	cc
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grinned	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	past	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass	past	they not said here	them = they					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they laughed and handed them over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 handed	cc
6	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 handed	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	6 handed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hand over	past	they not said here	them = they					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, they laughed and handed them over, then told her off for asking

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 handed	cc
6	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 handed	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	6 handed	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 told	advmod
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	off	off	ADP	_	11 told	compound:prt
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 asking	mark
15	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 told	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	laugh	past	they				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hand over	past	they not said here	them = they			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	tell off speech: assert	past	they not said here		her = she	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	they not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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