Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he…

Did the hermit know what the strange people were up to?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1643 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new helpers join the ship and the king's fleet is blinded by fog» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hermit	det
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 know	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 to	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 to	cop
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 were	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	5 what	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the hermit						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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, he sent them there to test the youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 test	mark
8	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	them = they		there			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	test	to-infinitive	he not said here	the youth					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme

Option 2

Nah, not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he knew why he gathered them, all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 gathered	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gathered	nsubj
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gathered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 along	punct
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 along	advmod
11	along	along	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he					along property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	gather	past	he	them = they					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Nope, he had no idea what they wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 idea	det
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 had	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no idea					tree rules
2	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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