Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

mum got proper mad, what did she actually do

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: get, do

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 did	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	past	mum	mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	past			tree rules
3	do	present	mum	actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

scolded her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 scolded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past		her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

sent her to bed early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obl
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		her = she		bed		early property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bed=Destination

Option 3

shut her in the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shut	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the tower			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gave her a box on the ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ear	det
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		a box	her = she	the ear			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient box=Theme on ear=Asset

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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