Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, part 61: the dwarf's beard…

was the bear sleeping on the hearth every night, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: be, sleep · To what, where: bear, hearth

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1474 «Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, part 61: the dwarf's beard is caught in a split tree» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bear	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bear	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hearth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hearth	det
7	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeping	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeping	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 bear	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bear					tree rules
2	sleep	gerund	the bear not said here			the hearth	night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 came in every single evening and lay down by the fire until morning

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 evening	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 evening	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 evening	amod
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lay	cc
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 lay	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 fire	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obl
15	until	until	ADP	_	16 morning	case
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he				evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	infinitive	he not said here				morning	by the fire	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by fire=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, every evening at the same hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 evening	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 evening	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 evening	det
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 hour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hour	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hour	amod
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evening	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he slept by the door most nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obl
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 nights	amod
9	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he				night	by the door	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, he only came to the house on the coldest winter nights when the snow was deep

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 nights	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nights	det
11	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 nights	amod
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nights	compound
13	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 deep	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snow	det
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deep	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 deep	cop
18	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nights	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he			the house	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the snow					deep property	tree rules

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