Test 14 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

Oi, was Jem's neck stiff when he woke up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, Jem · What happens: be, wake up

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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	Oi	Oi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stiff	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stiff	cop
4	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stiff	nsubj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jem	case
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stiff	nsubj
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 woke	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 woke	nsubj
10	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stiff	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 woke	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stiff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Oi					stiff property	tree rules
2	wake up	past	Jem						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Nah, his legs were stiff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stiff	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stiff	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stiff	cop
6	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he couldn't move his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 move	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 move	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 move	advmod
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	could	he	his head					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he couldn't move his head at all without it hurting badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 move	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 move	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 move	advmod
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 move	obl
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 hurting	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hurting	nsubj
13	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 move	advcl
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 hurting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	could	he	his head		all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	hurt	gerund	head					badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, he could hardly turn it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turn	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	aux
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 turn	advmod
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	could	he	it				hardly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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