Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…
Lowkey tho, what did the wife do to her husband with her foot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey tho · What happens: do · To what, where: wife
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1938 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greedy wife wants to be emperor, then pope, then god, and ends back in her hut» 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 | Lowkey | Lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tho | compound |
| 2 | tho | tho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tho | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 husband | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foot | nmod:poss |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Lowkey tho | the wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Lowkey tho | to tho's husband; with tho's foot | vn act-114-1 «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
kicked him hard in the ribs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 kicked | obj |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 kicked | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ribs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ribs | det |
| 6 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 kicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | him = he | the ribs | hard property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in rib=Location |
Option 2
poked him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poked | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 poked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poke | past | him = he | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
pushed him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 pushed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | him = he | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
hit him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 hit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
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