Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

So the minister reckons Hans should stay late in winter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: minister, Hans · What happens: reckon, stay

This is test 8 · ★ 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 reckons	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stay	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckons	ccomp
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 winter	case
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the minister						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stay	should	Hans				winter	late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 said it would happen every single winter and Hans must stay late every night without any extra pay

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happen	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 winter	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 winter	amod
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stay	cc
10	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stay	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	aux
12	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
13	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 stay	advmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stay	obl:unmarked
16	without	without	ADP	_	19 pay	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 pay	det
18	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pay	amod
19	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	would	it	winter		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	must	Hans	night	without any extra pay; late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would happen every winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 winter	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	It				winter		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He said it might happen now and then, but he would pay Hans extra for every hour past sunset

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happen	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 happen	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 then	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 now	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pay	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 pay	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pay	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pay	aux
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
14	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 pay	obl
15	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Hans	amod
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 sunset	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 sunset	det
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 past	compound
19	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sunset	compound
20	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	might	it		now	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pay	would	he	Hans	sunset	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He said it might happen now and then

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happen	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 happen	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 then	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 now	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	might	it				now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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