Test 6 · ★ · German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings ho…

bruv, why did the young guy dress up as an old lady?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: do, dress up · To what, where: young guy

This is test 6 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dress	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bruv	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guy	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guy	amod
7	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 dress	compound:prt
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 lady	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lady	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lady	amod
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dress	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dress	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the young guy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Eventuality
2	dress up	present	bruv					as a old lady	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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

to hide from the count's men and sneak into her house at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 men	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 count	det
5	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 count	case
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sneak	cc
9	sneak	sneak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive				her house	night	from the count's men and sneak	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from man=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

so he could get in to see her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	could	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 3

so he could get in to see her without her father noticing him at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
12	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 father	acl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 noticing	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 noticing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in	could	he				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she		without her father	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	notice	gerund	her father not said here	him = he	all		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

to fool her old father well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fool	mark
2	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fool	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	to-infinitive		her old father				well property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient

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