Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

Why's the wife always moaning, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be, moan

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 moaning	advmod
6	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 wife	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the wife and bruv					why property	tree rules
2	moan	gerund	the wife and bruv not said here					always property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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 she never stops wanting more and more stuff, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stops	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 stops	advmod
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stops	xcomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 stuff	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 more	cc
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 more	conj
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuff	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	present	cos	more stuff					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	want	gerund	cos not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

she's just grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grumpy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grumpy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 grumpy	advmod
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos she always wants more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 wants	advmod
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	cos	more				always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme

Option 4

cos she's never happy, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 happy	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	cos					happy property	tree rules

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