Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

Hans was dead chuffed when he saw that card lot in church, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: chuff, see · To what, where: Hans, card lot, church

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chuffed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chuffed	aux:pass
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chuffed	amod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chuffed	conj
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 lot	det
9	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lot	compound
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 church	case
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lot	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	4 chuffed	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		Hans					tree rules
2	see	past	he	that card lot		church			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=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 · ← Mova's choice

He was thrilled and joined in the game, winning all their coins and laughing about it all night

The tree, 18 words

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	3 thrilled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrilled	cop
3	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 joined	cc
5	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thrilled	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 game	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joined	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 winning	punct
10	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thrilled	parataxis
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 coins	det:predet
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 coins	nmod:poss
13	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 winning	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughing	cc
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 winning	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughing	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laughing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			thrilled property	tree rules
2	join	participle	He not said here			in the game	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in game=Theme
3	win	gerund		their coins			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Eventuality
4	laugh	gerund			night	about game	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	coin		their = they				nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He was excited and joined in

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	3 excited	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 excited	cop
3	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 joined	cc
5	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 excited	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 joined	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					excited property	tree rules
2	join in	participle	He not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was buzzing and having loads of fun

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	3 buzzing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buzzing	aux
3	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 having	cc
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 buzzing	conj
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 having	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	He						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund	He not said here	loads of fun					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient

Option 4

He was delighted, but he was also furious that nobody had invited him to the card game earlier in the evening

The tree, 21 words

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	3 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	cop
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 furious	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 furious	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 furious	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 furious	cop
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 furious	advmod
9	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 delighted	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 invited	mark
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 invited	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 invited	aux
13	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 furious	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 invited	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 game	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 game	det
17	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 game	compound
18	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 invited	obl
19	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 invited	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 evening	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 invited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			delighted property	tree rules
2	is	past	he			furious property	tree rules
3	invite	past · perfect · passive		nobody	evening	to the card game; early property	tree rules

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