Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…
Why's everyone whispering the minister murdered the missing men?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: be, whisper, murder · To what, where: minister, missing men
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | cop |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 murdered | nsubj |
| 4 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 everyone | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 minister | det |
| 6 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whispering | obj |
| 7 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 murdered | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | the minister | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Topic | |||||
| 3 | murder | past | everyone | the missing men | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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 · ✓ the right answer
Because the ringers vanished and rumours spread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 vanished | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ringers | det |
| 3 | ringers | ringer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spread | cc |
| 6 | rumours | rumour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanished | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the ringers | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spread | present | rumours | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The minister had hidden the bodies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hidden | aux |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bodies | det |
| 6 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hidden | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the minister | tree rules |
Option 3
The men were poisoned at dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 4 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dinner | case |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poisoned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | past · passive | the men | dinner | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Because the ringers vanished one by one and the minister was seen locking the tower door on the nights they disappeared
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 vanished | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ringers | det |
| 3 | ringers | ringer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 vanished | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 minister | det |
| 10 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 vanished | conj |
| 13 | locking | lock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 seen | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | compound |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 locking | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 nights | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nights | det |
| 19 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 locking | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 nights | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the ringers | one | by one | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the minister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lock | gerund | the minister not said here | the tower door | night | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 4 | disappear | past | ringers = ringer | the nights not said here | tree rules |
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