Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

Who got the sausage prize, the fox or Susan?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: get · To what, where: sausage prize

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prize	det
4	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prize	compound
5	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fox	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fox	det
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prize	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 Susan	cc
10	Susan	Susan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fox	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the sausage prize and the fox or Susan					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus

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

Susan, she got a prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Susan	Susan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Susan	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Susan	a prize					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus

Option 2

Susan, she got the prize for the best sausages in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Susan	Susan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Susan	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 sausages	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sausages	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 sausages	amod
10	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 town	case
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sausages	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Susan	the prize				for the best sausages in town	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for sausage=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the fox, he kept them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fox	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the fox	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

the fox, he kept them all and ate them at the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fox	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ate	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the fox	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	eat	past	the fox not said here	them = they		the wall			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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