Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Oi, did the little bloke actually batter the fiddler or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: do, batter · To what, where: little bloke, fiddler

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bloke	amod
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 batter	advmod
8	batter	batter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fiddler	det
10	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 batter	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 fiddler	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Oi	the little bloke					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Eventuality
2	batter	present	Oi not said here	the fiddler				actually property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddler=Patient

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

Yeah, he battered him then made him a sarnie and sent him home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 battered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 battered	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 battered	nsubj
4	battered	batter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 battered	obj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 made	advmod
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 battered	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sarnie	det
10	sarnie	sarnie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 battered	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obj
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	batter	past	he	him = he				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
2	make	past	he not said here	a sarnie	him = he	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary sarnie=Product
3	send	past	he not said here	him = he			home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Nah, the fiddler battered the little bloke and got him sacked from the castle

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 battered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fiddler	det
4	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 battered	nsubj
5	battered	batter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sacked	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bloke	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bloke	amod
8	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 battered	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 battered	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	obj
12	sacked	sack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	batter	past	the fiddler	the little bloke		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Patient
2	get	past	the fiddler not said here	fiddler		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	sack	past			the castle	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from castle=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he gave him a proper hiding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hiding	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hiding	amod
8	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a proper hiding	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hiding=Theme

Option 4

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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