Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

Does the Prince's dad forgive the brothers, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: forgive · To what, where: brothers

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1936 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part 73: the cruel brothers are banished, and the old cat and dog join the fox's war» 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	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forgive	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dad	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Prince	case
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgive	nsubj
6	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brothers	det
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forgive	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	6 forgive	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 forgive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	present · do-support	the Prince's dad	the brothers					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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

Yeah, he hugged them both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hugged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hugged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	nsubj
4	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	obj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hugged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	he	them = they					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he banished them both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 banished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 banished	nsubj
4	banished	banish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 banished	obj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 banished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	past	he	them = they					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he gave them gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	gold	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gold=Theme

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