Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep…

Ngl, was the dwarf actually sneaky or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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	7 sneaky	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sneaky	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sneaky	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sneaky	amod
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 sneaky	advmod
7	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sneaky	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sneaky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ngl					actually, sneaky property	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

Nah, he was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he plotted to get his powers back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 plotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plotted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plotted	nsubj
4	plotted	plot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plotted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 powers	nmod:poss
8	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plot	past	he						tree rules
2	get back	to-infinitive	he not said here	his powers					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, he only wanted to help them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 help	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	help out not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 4

Yeah, he plotted to get his powers back and tricked the youth into going first

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 plotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plotted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plotted	nsubj
4	plotted	plot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plotted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 powers	nmod:poss
8	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tricked	cc
11	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plotted	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tricked	obj
14	into	into	SCONJ	_	15 going	mark
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 tricked	advcl
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	plot	past	he			tree rules
2	get back	to-infinitive	he not said here	his powers		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus
3	trick	past	he not said here	the youth		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient
4	go	gerund	he not said here		first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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