Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the…

fr why did the hunter feel bad for the donkeys?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: feel

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1688 «Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the faithless trio with magic cabbage» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feel	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunter	det
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 donkeys	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 donkeys	det
10	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	fr					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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

he felt bad and cooled off

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cooled	cc
5	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 cooled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cool off	participle	he not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he took pity and dropped his anger

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dropped	cc
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 anger	nmod:poss
7	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	he	pity	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme
2	drop	past	he not said here	his anger	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme
3	anger		his = he		nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he took pity on them and dropped all of his anger right away

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dropped	cc
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dropped	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 anger	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 anger	nmod:poss
11	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 all	nmod
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	7 dropped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	pity	on them = they	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on they=Destination
2	drop	past	he not said here	all	away property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
3	anger		his = he			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

he pitied them and calmed down

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 pitied	nsubj
2	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pitied	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calmed	cc
5	calmed	calm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pitied	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 calmed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pity	past	he	them = they					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	calm down	participle	he not said here						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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