Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin…

Yo, did the Many-Furred Creature really cook the King's soup, or did the cook just say that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Furred Creature · What happens: do, fur, cook, say · To what, where: Furred Creature, soup, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1924 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the ring, the reel and the wedding» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 say	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Creature	det
5	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Furred	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Many	punct
7	Furred	fur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Creature	amod
8	Creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 cook	advmod
10	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Creature	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 soup	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 King	case
14	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cook	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cook	det
19	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	obj
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 say	advmod
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 say	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the Furred Creature	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Eventuality
2	fur	participle			tree rules
3	cook	present	the Furred Creature not said here	the King's soup	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past · do-support		that	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 · ← Mova's choice

The cook really cooked it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooked	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 cooked	advmod
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooked	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 cooked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	the cook	it				cook obl:unmarked	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

She cooked it herself, and the cook had to confess his lie to the King

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	nsubj
2	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	obj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 cooked	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cook	det
8	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cooked	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 confess	mark
11	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lie	nmod:poss
13	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confess	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 King	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 confess	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cook	past	She	it		herself = she obl:unmarked	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	have	past	the cook				tree rules
3	confess	to-infinitive	the cook not said here	cook's lie	the King		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Topic to king=Recipient
4	lie		cook				nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She only watched the cook work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 watched	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 watched	advmod
3	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	compound
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	She	the cook work					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She cooked it, and the cook had to confess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	nsubj
2	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cooked	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 confess	mark
10	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cook	past	She	it	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	have	past	the cook		tree rules
3	confess	to-infinitive	the cook not said here		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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