Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats enormously, breaks…

what's the deal with the old hacks, are they dead good?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal, hacks · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 good	obl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 hacks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hacks	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hacks	amod
8	hacks	hack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 good	cop
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 good	nsubj
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 good	amod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the old hacks						tree rules
2	is	present	hacks = hack					good property	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

yeah they're lovely young horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 horses	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 horses	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horses	cop
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	lovely young horses					tree rules

Option 2

yeah they're fast horses but the cart's the knackered bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 horses	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 horses	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 horses	cop
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horses	amod
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 bit	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cart	det
8	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bit	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bit	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	knackered	knackered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	fast horses but the knackered bit					tree rules
2	is a	present	the cart	the knackered bit					tree rules

Option 3

nah they're knackered old horses that can barely pull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 horses	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 horses	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horses	cop
4	knackered	knackered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pull	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pull	aux
9	barely	barely	ADV	_	10 pull	advmod
10	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 horses	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	knackered old horses					tree rules
2	pull	can	knackered old horses					barely property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah they're knackered old horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 horses	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 horses	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horses	cop
4	knackered	knackered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	knackered old horses					tree rules

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