Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he…

Yo, did the youth have any money left for the dowry?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: do, have, leave · To what, where: money

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 money	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 dowry	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dowry	det
12	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	have	present	the youth	any money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	leave	participle		any money not said here	for the dowry	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for dowry=Recipient

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

Nope, he spent all of it building the ship and then he had to borrow from the hermit

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 spent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spent	nsubj
4	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 building	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 all	nmod
8	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spent	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 building	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 had	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 borrow	mark
16	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 hermit	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hermit	det
19	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 borrow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	spend	past	he				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal
2	build	gerund	all	the ship			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
3	have	past	he			then	tree rules
4	borrow	to-infinitive	he not said here		the hermit		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from hermit=Source

Option 2

Yeah, he saved some coins for later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saved	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 coins	det
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saved	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 later	case
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 saved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	he	some coins				late property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, he spent every last coin on building the ship and buying the sailors' food

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 spent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spent	nsubj
4	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 coin	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spent	obj
8	on	on	SCONJ	_	9 building	mark
9	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spent	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 building	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 buying	cc
13	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 building	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sailors	det
15	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 food	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 sailors	case
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spend	past	he	every last coin	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Asset
2	build	gerund	he not said here	the ship	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
3	buy	gerund	he not said here	the sailors's food	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he spent it all building the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 spent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spent	nsubj
4	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spent	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det
7	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spent	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 building	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	he	it					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
2	build	gerund	he not said here	the ship					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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