Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats enormously, breaks…

why'd all the lads go off to the forest without him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lads · What happens: go off

This is test 9 · ★ 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	6 go	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 lads	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lads	det
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	present	all lads					to the forest; without him = he	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

cos they grabbed all the best carts and horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grabbed	nsubj
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 carts	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carts	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 carts	amod
7	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grabbed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 horses	cc
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	cos	all best carts and horses					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 2

cos they had a race to the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 race	det
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	cos	a race				to the forest	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cos they left before dawn for the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	cos				dawn	for the wood	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for wood=Recipient

Option 4

cos they were rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 rude	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rude	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					rude property	tree rules

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