Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

So when Hans got to the top, what did he do with the headless bloke in the bell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hans · What happens: get, do · To what, where: top

This is test 4 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 top	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 bloke	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bloke	det
15	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bloke	amod
16	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 bell	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bell	det
19	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bloke	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Hans					to the top result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result
2	do	past · do-support	Hans	the top				with the headless bloke in the bell	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

He threatened to chuck him out the window

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 threatened	nsubj
2	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chuck	mark
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threatened	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 chuck	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	He						tree rules
2	chuck out not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	him = he				the window obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

He tried to shake his hand

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 shake	mark
4	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shake not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his hand					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 3

He pushed him to the floor

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 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	He	him = he		the floor			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to floor=Trajectory

Option 4

He sat down with him and asked him for the secret of the bell and the gold

The tree, 17 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 asked	cc
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	iobj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 secret	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 secret	det
11	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bell	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bell	det
14	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 secret	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gold	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gold	det
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 secret	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	He					with him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	He not said here		him = he			for the secret of the bell and the gold	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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