Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

Hang on, the sea went green then violet then grey, what's that about?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sea · What happens: hang on, go, be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	conj
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 violet	advmod
9	violet	violet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 grey	advmod
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 violet	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Hang	obl
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 about	cop
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 about	nsubj
16	about	about	ADV	_	13 what	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the sea	green, violet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present		about property	tree rules

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

it's the sea being moody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sea	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sea	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 moody	cop
6	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sea	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the sea					tree rules
2	is	gerund						moody property	tree rules

Option 2

it's the sea going mad because the flounder's fed up with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sea	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sea	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sea	acl
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 going	xcomp
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 fed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flounder	det
9	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fed	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 flounder	case
11	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 going	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 fed	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the sea		tree rules
2	go	gerund	the sea not said here		mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed up	participle	the sea not said here		with her = she	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it's the sea reacting to her wishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sea	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sea	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	reacting	react	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sea	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wishes	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wishes	nmod:poss
8	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reacting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the sea		tree rules
2	react	gerund	the sea not said here		to her wishes	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme
3	wish		her = she			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the sea changes with the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	nsubj
3	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	the sea					with the moon	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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