Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

Mate, what was the fisher's wife always going on about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, wife · What happens: be, go on · To what, where: wife

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 wife	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wife	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fisher	det
6	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 fisher	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 going	advmod
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 wife	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 going	compound:prt
12	about	about	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the fisher's wife	the fisher's wife					tree rules
2	go on	gerund	the fisher's wife not said here					about, always property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

where the riches came from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 riches	det
3	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the riches						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

why the riches came from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 riches	det
3	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the riches			the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location

Option 4

where the treasure went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 treasure	det
3	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the treasure						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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