Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

Did Hans reckon they'd get home before dark, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hans · What happens: reckon, get

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1799 «Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings the bells, outwits the headless dwarves, then rides off through snow» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckon	aux
2	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reckon	nsubj
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckon	ccomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 dark	case
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 reckon	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Hans						tree rules
2	get	would	Hans = han				before dark	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 doubted it

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 doubted	nsubj
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubted	obj

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

Option 2

No, they would not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 would	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 would	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He doubted they'd reach town in daylight

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 doubted	nsubj
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reach	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 doubted	ccomp
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 daylight	case
8	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	past	He						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	reach	would	they	town		daylight			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He thought they would be home by dusk

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 home	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 home	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 home	cop
6	home	home	ADV	_	2 thought	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 dusk	case
8	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He				dusk		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	they					home property	tree rules

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