Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

the little tailor was sewing, yeah? what was the jam like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little tailor · What happens: sew, be · To what, where: jam

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sewing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sewing	aux
5	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 jam	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 jam	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 jam	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 jam	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 jam	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 jam	det
12	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sewing	parataxis
13	like	like	ADP	_	12 jam	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sewing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past · progressive	the little tailor						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the jam					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

Stale jam, he said, full of insects, and he refused to eat any of it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 jam	amod
2	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 jam	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 full	punct
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 insects	case
9	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 full	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 refused	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 refused	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 refused	nsubj
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 refused	xcomp
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 eat	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 any	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Stale jam		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	past	he		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not eat	to-infinitive	he not said here	any	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Good jam, he said, fit to sell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 jam	amod
2	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 jam	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fit	punct
7	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sell	mark
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fit	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Good jam	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fit	infinitive		tree rules
3	sell	to-infinitive		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Excellent jam, he said, the best he had ever tasted in the whole village

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 jam	amod
2	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 jam	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 best	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 best	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 said	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tasted	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tasted	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 tasted	advmod
12	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 village	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 village	amod
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Excellent jam						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	taste	past · perfect	he			the whole village	ever		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in village=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sour, he said, not for sale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sale	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sale	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 sale	case
8	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					for sale	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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