Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

Did the wife ever get happy with what she had?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: do, get, have · To what, where: wife

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wife	acl
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 happy	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the wife			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	get	infinitive	the wife not said here		ever	happy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	past	wife				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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, she was very happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

nah, never, she was always wanting more stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 wanting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 wanting	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wanting	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 wanting	advmod
8	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · progressive	she	more stuff				always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme

Option 3

nah, she was always sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, never, always wanting more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 wanting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 wanting	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 wanting	advmod
6	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 wanting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	gerund		more				always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme

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