Test 4 · ★ · Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to…

mate, what was the miller salty about, like what was his big problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: be · To what, where: big problem

This is test 4 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 salty	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 salty	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 salty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 salty	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 miller	det
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 salty	obl:unmarked
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 salty	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 problem	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 problem	mark
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 problem	obj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 problem	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 problem	nmod:poss
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 problem	amod
15	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 salty	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mate					the miller obl:unmarked; about, salty property	tree rules
2	is a	past	mate not said here	his big problem					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

his mill was far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mill	nmod:poss
2	mill	mill	NOUN	_	5 away	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his mill					away, far property	tree rules

Option 2

his mill was bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mill	nmod:poss
2	mill	mill	NOUN	_	4 bad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his mill was mad good but he stayed broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mill	nmod:poss
2	mill	mill	NOUN	_	5 good	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	amod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 stayed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stayed	nsubj
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	conj
9	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his mill					good property	tree rules
2	stay	past	he					broke property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

his bread was stale and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bread	nmod:poss
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stale	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stale	cop
4	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cold	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his bread					stale property	tree rules
2	be		his bread not said here						tree rules

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