Test 10 · ★ · German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings ho…

was Dame Ilse happy to see her hubby back?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dame · What happens: be, see back · To what, where: hubby

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 688 «German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings home a barrel of gold and meets a sad young lover» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
2	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 happy	nsubj
3	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dame	flat
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happy	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hubby	nmod:poss
8	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dame					happy property	tree rules
2	see back	to-infinitive	Dame not said here	Dame's hubby					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hubby=Stimulus

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

nope, she cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

kinda, but she went mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					kinda, mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

kinda, but she was cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 cross	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cross	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	cop
6	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, but she scolded him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scolded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scolded	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 scolded	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scolded	nsubj
5	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scolded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	she	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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