Test 5 · ★ · German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings ho…

did Peter really need that magic root?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: need · To what, where: Peter

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Peter	aux
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 need	obl
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 root	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 root	amod
7	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present		Peter					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot root=Theme

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, he could have dug it all himself with his spade and lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dug	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dug	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dug	aux
6	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dug	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 dug	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 spade	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 spade	nmod:poss
12	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dug	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lamp	cc
14	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spade	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	could · perfect	he	it				with his spade and lamp	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary himself=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it made the digging work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 work	det
6	digging	digging	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	compound
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	the digging work					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material work=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it let him dig down fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 dig	compound:prt
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dig	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	it	him = he					tree rules
2	dig down	infinitive	him = he not said here					fast property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, it made the digging work so he could get down to the gold

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 work	det
6	digging	digging	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	compound
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 get	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 gold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gold	det
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	the digging work					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material work=Product
2	get down	could	he					to the gold result; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to gold=Result

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