Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…

Innit wild that the prince almost grabbed the golden saddle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: grab · To what, where: golden saddle

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wild	compound
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 grabbed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grabbed	nsubj
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 grabbed	advmod
7	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wild	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 saddle	det
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saddle	amod
10	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grabbed	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	the prince	the golden saddle				almost property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he never even looked at it, he walked straight past the saddle

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 looked	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
6	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 walked	csubj:pass
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 saddle	advmod
13	past	past	ADP	_	15 saddle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 saddle	det
15	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	participle	he					at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	walk	past	he			the saddle			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past saddle=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Proper wild, he nearly did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wild	amod
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wild	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he					nearly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he got close, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
7	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Proper wild, he grabbed it right off the wall and ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wild	amod
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grabbed	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grabbed	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grabbed	nsubj
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grabbed	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 wall	advmod
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grabbed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	he	it		the wall			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme off wall=Source
2	run	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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