Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

Why's Hans bringing a bag of grub to a christening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hans · What happens: bring · To what, where: bag, christening

This is test 9 · ★ 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=Int	4 bringing	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bringing	aux
3	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 bringing	nsubj
4	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bringing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 grub	case
8	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bag	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 christening	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 christening	det
11	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bringing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bringing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present · progressive	Hans	a bag of grub		a christening			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to christening=Destination

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 trip might take past sunset because the wood is thick and the horse is old and slow

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trip	det
2	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	past	past	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
6	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 thick	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thick	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thick	cop
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 take	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 old	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 old	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 old	cop
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thick	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 slow	cc
18	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	take	might	the trip	sunset	past property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the wood		thick property	tree rules
3	is	present	the horse		old property	tree rules
4	be		the wood not said here			tree rules

Option 2

The road was icy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 icy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 icy	cop
4	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the road					icy property	tree rules

Option 3

They might get lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	might · passive		They					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The trip might take past sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trip	det
2	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sunset	amod
6	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	might	the trip				sunset		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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