Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he…

Was the messenger quick or was he a total slowcoach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: messenger, he · What happens: be · To what, where: total slowcoach

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quick	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 messenger	det
3	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quick	nsubj
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 slowcoach	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slowcoach	cop
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slowcoach	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 slowcoach	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slowcoach	amod
10	slowcoach	slowcoach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quick	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 quick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the messenger					quick property	tree rules
2	is a	past	he	a total slowcoach					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 · ✓ the right answer

He was zooming, but he went sleepy and nearly missed it

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 zooming	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 zooming	aux
3	zooming	zoom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 zooming	conj
8	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 missed	cc
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 missed	advmod
11	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 zooming	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	zoom	past · progressive	He			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	he		sleepy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	miss	past	He not said here	it	nearly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

He ran fast at first but then he got a bit slow and sleepy

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ran	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 ran	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slow	obl:unmarked
12	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sleepy	cc
14	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 slow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	He					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Trajectory
2	get	past	he				then	slow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

He was quick

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 quick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quick	cop
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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