Test 2 · ★ · Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the d…

Dude, why was the minister so salty about his cash?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: be, cash · To what, where: minister

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 minister	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 minister	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 minister	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 minister	det
6	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 salty	advmod
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 minister	amod
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 cash	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cash	nmod:poss
11	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salty	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the minister					tree rules
2	cash		his = he						nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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 thought Hans stole his stuff

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stuff	nmod:poss
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	steal	past	Hans	Hans's stuff					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stuff=Theme

Option 2

Cause Hans grabbed his purse while he was asleep and then ran off down the road

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	Cause	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	nsubj
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cause	flat
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 purse	nmod:poss
5	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grabbed	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ran	advmod
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grabbed	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 ran	compound:prt
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	Cause	Cause's purse				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	is	past	Cause				asleep property	tree rules
3	run off	past	Cause not said here		the road	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down road=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hans got richer while he was snoozing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 got	xcomp
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 snoozing	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snoozing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 snoozing	aux
7	snoozing	snooze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 got	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Hans					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	snooze	past · progressive	he						vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cause Hans found the stash, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	Cause	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cause	flat
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stash	det
5	stash	stash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stash	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Cause	the stash and bro					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stash=Topic

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