Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

Dead funny, what did the robbers reckon he was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers, he · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reckon	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robbers	det
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 funny	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the robbers						tree rules
2	be	past	he						vn exist-47.1 «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

a poor woodcutter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woodcutter	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woodcutter	amod
3	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a lost shepherd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shepherd	amod
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a poor bear-keeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 keeper	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keeper	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeper	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bear	punct
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beggar	det
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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