Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

So the flounder had the power to grant wishes, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flounder · What happens: have, grant · To what, where: power, wishes

This is test 11 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flounder	det
3	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 power	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 grant	mark
8	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 power	acl
9	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grant	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the flounder	the power					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	grant	to-infinitive	the flounder not said here	wishes					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=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

yeah, it could grant them all, cos it was enchanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 grant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grant	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grant	aux
5	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grant	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enchanted	punct
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 enchanted	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 enchanted	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 enchanted	aux:pass
12	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grant	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	could	it	them = they					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	enchant	past · passive		it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it could grant them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 grant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grant	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grant	aux
5	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	could	it	them = they					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

nah, it was just lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lucky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lucky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lucky	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lucky	advmod
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					lucky property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it was a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a fish					tree rules

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