Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

Why was Hans's kip so long the next morning, like till dinner?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kip · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kip	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Hans	case
5	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 morning	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dinner	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
13	till	till	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hans's kip				morning	like dinner; why property	tree rules

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

He slept in the hayloft till noon

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 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hayloft	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hayloft	det
5	hayloft	hayloft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 noon	case
7	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	He			the hayloft	noon		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hayloft=Location

Option 2

He had slept in the hayloft till noon after ringing the bells all night and tumbling down the stairs

The tree, 19 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 slept	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slept	aux
3	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hayloft	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hayloft	det
6	hayloft	hayloft	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slept	obl
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 noon	case
8	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slept	obl
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 ringing	mark
10	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 slept	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bells	det
12	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ringing	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ringing	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tumbling	cc
16	tumbling	tumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ringing	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	19 stairs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stairs	det
19	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tumbling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sleep	past · perfect	He		the hayloft	noon	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hayloft=Location
2	ring	gerund	He not said here	the bells		night	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
3	tumble down	gerund	He not said here	the stairs			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He stayed in the tower till dinner

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	He			the tower	till dinner		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location

Option 4

He slept on the pews till dawn

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 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 pews	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pews	det
5	pews	pew	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slept	obl
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	He			the pews	dawn		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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