Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves…

The raven went in the stew, dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raven · What happens: go · To what, where: stew

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stew	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stew	det
6	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the raven			the stew			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in stew=Location

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

Nah, it flew off home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	it	home					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=Theme

Option 2

Nah, it got let go free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux:pass
5	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · passive		it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive						free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it ended up in a pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ended	nsubj
4	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 ended	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pie	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pie	det
8	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past	it					in a pie result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pie=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was in the broth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 broth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 broth	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broth	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 broth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 broth	det
7	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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