Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…

Fam, what was the prince's big hang-up about the fox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big hang · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Fam	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hang	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 prince	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hang	amod
9	hang	hang	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 hang	compound
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 fox	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hang	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the prince's big hang about the fox						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

He was scared, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	conj

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

Option 2

He feared the lions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lions	det
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He	the lions					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus

Option 3

He was scared of the robbers and the king's men at the palace gate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 robbers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 men	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 men	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 robbers	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 gate	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gate	compound
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			the palace gate		of the robbers and the king's men; scared property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He couldn't chop his mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chop	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chop	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 chop	advmod
4	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mate	nmod:poss
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not chop	could	He	his mate					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient

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