Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin…

Bruv, why did the King end up tearing her cloak off?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: do, end up, tear off · To what, where: cloak

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 end	xcomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cloak	nmod:poss
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tearing	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	9 tearing	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	end up	present	the King			tree rules
3	tear off	gerund	the King not said here	Bruv's cloak		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cloak=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

He had heard the cook confess to everything

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	3 heard	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 everything	case
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 confess	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	He	the cook					tree rules
2	confess	infinitive	the cook not said here		everything				vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to everything=Recipient

Option 2

He had seen the white finger and the ring and then the cook confessed

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	3 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 finger	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 finger	amod
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ring	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finger	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cook	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 cook	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cook	det
13	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	conj
14	confessed	confess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cook	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	He	the white finger and the ring					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus
2	confess	participle		the cook not said here					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He had seen the white finger and the ring

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	3 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 finger	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 finger	amod
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ring	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	He	the white finger and the ring					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He had seen the white finger and the ring and then remembered the golden hair

The tree, 15 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	3 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 finger	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 finger	amod
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ring	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finger	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 remembered	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 remembered	advmod
12	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hair	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hair	amod
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remembered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	He	the white finger and the ring					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus
2	remember	past	He not said here	the golden hair			then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

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