Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Clever Tailor: the tai…

so the bear's a big scary beast, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: be · To what, where: big scary beast

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1933 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Clever Tailor: the tailor guesses the Princess's hair and tames the bear» 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 beast	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beast	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 beast	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beast	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beast	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 beast	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 beast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the bear	a big scary beast					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

Yeah, it had killed everyone who came near the stable, so it was dead scary and huge.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 killed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 killed	aux
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 killed	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everyone	acl:relcl
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 stable	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stable	det
11	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scary	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 scary	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scary	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 scary	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scary	amod
17	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 killed	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 huge	cc
19	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scary	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive		it			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer everyone=Result
2	come	past			the stable		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near stable=Location
3	is	past	stable			scary property	tree rules
4	be		stable not said here				tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it had killed everyone who came near, so it was dead scary

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 killed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 killed	aux
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 killed	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everyone	acl:relcl
9	near	near	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scary	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 scary	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 scary	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 scary	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 scary	amod
15	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 killed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive		it		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer everyone=Result
2	come	past			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	it		scary property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was a huge beast that roared at everyone in the village.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 beast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beast	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beast	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beast	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beast	amod
7	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 roared	nsubj
9	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beast	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 everyone	case
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 roared	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roared	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 beast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a huge beast					tree rules
2	roar	past	a huge beast			everyone		in the village	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at everyone=Location

Option 4

Nah, it was just a sleepy bear that liked nuts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 bear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bear	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bear	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 bear	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
7	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bear	amod
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 liked	nsubj
10	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bear	acl:relcl
11	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 liked	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a sleepy bear					tree rules
2	like	past	a sleepy bear	nuts					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nut=Theme

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