Test 1 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

Mate, was Peter just messin' with Friedlin or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Mate Peter messin

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 messin	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messin	cop
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 messin	compound
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 messin	advmod
6	messin	messin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 messin	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 Friedlin	case
9	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 messin	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 Friedlin	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 messin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Mate Peter messin				with Friedlin	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

He was messin' with him for the whole evening at the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 messin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 messin	cop
3	messin	messin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 messin	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 messin	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 evening	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 evening	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 evening	amod
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 messin	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evening	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	messin			evening	with him = he	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was mocking Friedlin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mocking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mocking	aux
3	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mocking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past · progressive	He	Friedlin					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friedlin=Theme

Option 3

He was dead drunk, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drunk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drunk	amod
4	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drunk	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					mate vocative; drunk property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was dead serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 serious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 serious	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 serious	amod
4	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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