Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the d…

Fr, why did everyone think the minister had a crash?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, minister · What happens: think, have · To what, where: crash · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1800 «Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and finds the hidden treasure» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 think	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fr	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 minister	det
8	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crash	det
11	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	everyone						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	the minister	a crash					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crash=Patient

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 minister came back alone in the cart with a broken wheel and nobody to help him push it

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 minister	det
2	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cart	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cart	det
8	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 wheel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wheel	det
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wheel	amod
12	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cart	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nobody	cc
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 wheel	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 help	mark
16	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 help	obj
18	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 help	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 push	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the minister		the cart with a broken wheel	alone property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cart=Location
2	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	help	to-infinitive	the minister not said here	minister			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	push	infinitive	minister not said here	wheel			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He arrived without his servant

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 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 servant	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 servant	nmod:poss
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	He					without his servant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He turned up with no coachman

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 turned	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 coachman	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 coachman	det
6	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	He					with no coachman	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

His horse had run off alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past · perfect · passive		His horse				alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent

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