Test 10 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

How come the old woman got him, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: come, get, innit · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 come	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present			tree rules
2	get	past	the old woman	him = he	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	innit	infinitive			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

his mum lent him away, being a kindly soul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lent	nsubj
3	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lent	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 lent	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 soul	punct
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 soul	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 soul	det
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	10 soul	advmod
10	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lent	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend away	past	his mum	him = he				away property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is a	gerund		a soul				kindly property	tree rules

Option 2

his mum lent him out, being kindly and sorry for the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lent	nsubj
3	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lent	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 lent	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kindly	punct
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 kindly	cop
8	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 lent	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sorry	cc
10	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kindly	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 woman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lend out	past	his mum	him = he	for the old woman	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	gerund			kindly property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his mum lent him, being kindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lent	nsubj
3	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lent	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kindly	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 kindly	cop
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 lent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	past	his mum	him = he					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	gerund						kindly property	tree rules

Option 4

his mum lent him, being broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lent	nsubj
3	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lent	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 broke	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 broke	cop
7	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lent	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	past	his mum	him = he					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	gerund						broke property	tree rules

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