Test 9 · ★ · German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings ho…

what's the deal with the iron door in the gnome's place?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gnome	det
11	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 gnome	case
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the iron door in the gnome's place						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

it locks after he left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 locks	nsubj
2	locks	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 locks	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	present	it						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	leave	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it slammed shut behind him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj:pass
2	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	aux:pass
3	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past · passive		it				behind him = he	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

it stayed open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it					open property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

it shut when he went out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shut	nsubj
2	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 went	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	advcl
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	he					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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