Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

Wait, why'd the fisherman even bother saving that flounder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fisherman · What happens: wait, save

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saving	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saving	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 fisherman	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fisherman	det
6	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saving	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 bother	advmod
8	bother	both	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 saving	advmod
9	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 flounder	mark
11	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saving	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	gerund	the fisherman					both property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «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

cos it could chat and he felt bad about it, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 chat	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chat	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chat	aux
4	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 like	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 felt	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 felt	nsubj
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chat	conj
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 felt	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bad	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chat	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	could	it						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	he					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

cos it begged him proper nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	obj
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 nice	advmod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 begged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past	it		him = he			nice property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos it could chat, so it was proper mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 chat	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chat	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chat	aux
4	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mad	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 mad	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mad	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mad	cop
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 mad	advmod
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	could	it						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					mad, properly property	tree rules

Option 4

cos it was a fish, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fish	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	past	it	a fish and innit					tree rules

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