Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats enormously, breaks…

why'd the squire go all bricking it about Hans?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: squire · What happens: go, brick · To what, where: squire

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1631 «Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats enormously, breaks the iron staffs, and threshes the squire's grain» 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	5 go	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 bricking	advmod
7	bricking	brick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 go	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bricking	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 Hans	case
10	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bricking	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	the squire						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	brick	gerund	the squire not said here	squire				about Hans; all property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

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

cos Hans had a big flail and was dead grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	X	Foreign=Yes	3 had	nsubj
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flail	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flail	amod
6	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grumpy	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grumpy	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grumpy	amod
10	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	cos	a big flail					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flail=Patient
2	is	past	cos not said here					grumpy property	tree rules

Option 2

cos the lads told him Hans was way too strong to argue with and mad

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lads	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lads	det
3	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 way	compound
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strong	nsubj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 argue	mark
12	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 strong	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	12 argue	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mad	cc
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 strong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cos	infinitive				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the cos lads		him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is a	past		Hans way		tree rules
4	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive	the cos lads not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cos Hans was proper scary and loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scary	nsubj
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 cos	appos
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scary	cop
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 scary	advmod
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loud	cc
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scary	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cos					properly, scary property	tree rules
2	be		cos not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cos Hans was way too strong to argue with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nsubj
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 cos	appos
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 argue	mark
8	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 strong	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	8 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cos	way					tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive	cos not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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