Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

The dog was proper deaf, wasn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: he

This is test 3 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deaf	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deaf	cop
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 deaf	advmod
5	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deaf	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 he	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 he	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 deaf	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 deaf	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dog					deaf, properly property	tree rules
2	not is a	past		he					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

Nah, he could hear fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hear	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could	he					fine property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, but he could still see perfectly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	7 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	he				still	perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, deaf and blind and barking at nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 deaf	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 deaf	punct
3	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blind	cc
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 deaf	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 barking	cc
7	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 deaf	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund						at nothing	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at nothing=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, he was just a bit daft, really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 daft	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 daft	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 daft	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daft	obl:unmarked
8	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 daft	punct
10	really	really	ADV	_	8 daft	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					a bit obl:unmarked; daft property	tree rules

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