Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

Mate, did the fox actually nick the sausages or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: nick · To what, where: sausages

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1937 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 1: a greedy wife keeps asking the flounder for more» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nick	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nick	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 nick	advmod
7	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sausages	det
9	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nick	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sausages	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · do-support	the fox	the sausages				Mate vocative; actually property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Patient

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, the fox nicked them early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nicked	obj
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 nicked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the fox	them = they				early property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the fox had them all along, the greedy git

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 git	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 git	det
11	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 git	amod
12	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fox	them = they				the greedy git obl; along property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the fox had them all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	5 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fox	them = they				along property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

nah, the cook pinched them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pinched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pinched	nsubj
5	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pinched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	the cook	them = they					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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