Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

Did the little dwarves beg for mercy like proper little snivellers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little dwarves · What happens: beg

This is test 5 · ★ 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=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dwarves	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dwarves	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dwarves	amod
4	dwarves	dwarve	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beg	nsubj
5	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 mercy	case
7	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beg	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 snivellers	case
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snivellers	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snivellers	amod
11	snivellers	sniveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beg	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 beg	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	the little dwarves					for mercy; like proper little snivellers	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic

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

Yeah, they shouted for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 help	case
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	they					for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, they fought back hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 fought	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	past	they					hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they begged him to spare their lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spare	mark
7	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lives	nmod:poss
9	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	spare not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	their lives					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset

Option 4

Nah, they laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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