Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…
Did the palace get bigger after the king wish, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: get · To what, where: palace
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 palace | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 wish | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wish | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | compound |
| 9 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bigger | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nah | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 nah | cc |
| 12 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 get | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the palace | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
yeah, it got a bit taller
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taller | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | it | tall property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
nah, it stayed the same size but got loads of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 size | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 size | amod |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 10 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loads | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | it | the same size | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme size=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | past | loads of gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, it got huge with towers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 towers | case |
| 7 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | it | with towers; huge property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
yeah, it got huge and got loads of towers and gardens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 towers | case |
| 10 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loads | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gardens | cc |
| 12 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loads | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | it | huge property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | get | past | loads of towers and gardens | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus |
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