Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Ngl, was the flute guy chatty with the dwarf or dead quiet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: flute guy

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 guy	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 guy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guy	det
5	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guy	compound
6	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guy	amod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 dwarf	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dwarf	det
10	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chatty	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 quiet	cc
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 quiet	amod
13	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dwarf	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 guy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the flute guy					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 · ← Mova's choice

He sang and joked with the dwarf the whole way round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 joked	cc
4	joked	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 dwarf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarf	det
7	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joked	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obl:unmarked
11	round	round	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	He	the whole way				round property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	joke speech: other	past	He not said here					with the dwarf	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dwarf=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was dead quiet to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quiet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quiet	amod
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quiet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		him = he			quiet property	tree rules

Option 3

He chatted all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chatted	nsubj
2	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chatted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past	He				time		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He told him all his life story and asked lots of questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 story	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 story	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	compound
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
10	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 asked	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 questions	case
12	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He	his life story	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	He not said here	lots of questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient

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