Test 2 · ★ · Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to…

no cap, did the servant really get turned to stone just for talking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, turn, talk · To what, where: servant, stone

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 663 «Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to save his servant» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	really	really	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
8	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	aux:pass
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 servant	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 stone	case
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 talking	advmod
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 talking	mark
14	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 turned	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the servant		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality
2	turn	present · passive		the servant not said here	stone	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: to stone=Trajectory
3	talk	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «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

he ate the crow soup

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soup	det
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soup	compound
5	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the crow soup					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fr, he spilled the crow tea and froze up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spilled	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spilled	nsubj
4	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tea	det
6	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tea	compound
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spilled	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 froze	cc
9	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spilled	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 froze	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	he	fr					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme
2	freeze up	past	he not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

he yelled at the crows

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 yelled	nsubj
2	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 crows	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crows	det
5	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	he					at the crows	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at crow=Stimulus

Option 4

fr, he spilled the crow tea and then froze up cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spilled	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spilled	nsubj
4	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tea	det
6	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tea	compound
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spilled	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 froze	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 froze	advmod
10	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spilled	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 froze	compound:prt
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 froze	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	he	fr					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme
2	freeze up	past	he not said here				then	cold property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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