Test 2 · ★ · German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings ho…

wait, why did Lucia's mum get so mad at her dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mum · What happens: wait, get

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
5	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mum	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Lucia	case
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 mad	advmod
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 dad	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dad	nmod:poss
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mad	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past · do-support	Lucia's mum					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

cos he wasted all the cash in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wasted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wasted	nsubj
3	wasted	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 cash	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cash	det
6	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wasted	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 town	case
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	past	cos	all cash		town			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cash=Patient

Option 2

cos he spent all the cash on ale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 cash	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cash	det
6	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 ale	case
8	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	cos	all cash				on ale goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cash=Asset on ale=Goal

Option 3

cos he went off for years and left them skint with no food at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obj
10	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 food	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 food	det
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	cos				year		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past	cos not said here	them = they		all		with no food; skint property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at all=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos he went off and left them skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 left	cc
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	obj
8	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	cos						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past	cos not said here	them = they				skint property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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