Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…

Ngl, was the golden horse proper calm or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 calm	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 calm	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calm	nsubj
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 calm	amod
8	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 calm	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 calm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ngl					calm 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

Nah, it went proper mental and kicked the stable door down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 mental	advmod
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kicked	cc
8	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
10	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 door	amod
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kicked	obj
12	down	down	ADV	_	8 kicked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kick	past		the stable door				down property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, it snorted at everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 snorted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snorted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snorted	nsubj
4	snorted	snort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 snorted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snort	past	it			everyone			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it stood still like a lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 lamb	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lamb	det
8	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	it				still	like a lamb	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, it reared and kicked the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reared	nsubj
4	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kicked	cc
6	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reared	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rear	past	it						vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	kick	past		the wall					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wall=Patient

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