Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood:…

Dude, what's the deal with the broom in the wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1559 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood: a kind girl and a rude girl get very different gifts» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 broom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 broom	det
9	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 broom	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dude	the deal				with the broom in the wood	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 · ← Mova's choice

The dwarfs wanted the snow swept from the back door so they could get in and warm themselves by the fire

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swept	nsubj
6	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swept	obl
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swept	advcl
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 warm	cc
17	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 get	conj
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 warm	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	the dwarfs				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sweep	past	the snow		the back door		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from door=Trajectory
3	get in	could	dwarfs = dwarf				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	warm	infinitive	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	dwarfs = dwarf		by the fire	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

Option 2

The dwarfs wanted the mud swept from the kitchen floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mud	det
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swept	nsubj
6	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floor	compound
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the dwarfs						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sweep	past	the mud			the kitchen floor			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from floor=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dwarfs wanted the snow swept from the back door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swept	nsubj
6	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the dwarfs						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sweep	past	the snow			the back door			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from door=Trajectory

Option 4

The dwarfs asked her to sweep the snow from the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sweep	mark
6	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweep	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 yard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 yard	det
11	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the dwarfs		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sweep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dwarfs not said here	the snow				from the yard	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snow=Theme from yard=Trajectory

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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