Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal ta…

Lol, what was the Ant-King mad about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1932 «Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal talk and the animals repay his kindness» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mad	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mad	det
6	Ant	ant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mad	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Ant	punct
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mad	nsubj
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	about	about	ADP	_	9 mad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						mad property	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 servant digging up his whole kingdom of ants and destroying the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 servant	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 digging	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kingdom	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kingdom	amod
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 digging	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ants	case
9	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kingdom	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 destroying	cc
11	destroying	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 digging	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destroying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	gerund	the servant not said here	his whole kingdom of ants					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
2	destroy	gerund	the servant not said here	the hill					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the horse crushing his people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 horse	acl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 people	nmod:poss
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	gerund	the horse not said here	horse's people					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 3

the ravens stealing his food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ravens	det
2	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stealing	nsubj
3	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund	the ravens	his food					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme

Option 4

the horse trampling his people while racing through the ant hill near the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trampling	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trampling	compound
3	trampling	trampling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 people	nmod:poss
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trampling	appos
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 racing	mark
7	racing	race	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 trampling	acl
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
10	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hill	compound
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 racing	obl
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hill	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	gerund	the horse trampling not said here			the ant hill near the palace			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hill=Trajectory

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