Test 10 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

Did the old miser die 'cause he was too greedy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, be · To what, where: old miser die

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 die	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 die	amod
4	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	compound
5	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
7	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	11 greedy	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 greedy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 greedy	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 greedy	advmod
11	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Did	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old miser die					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent die=Eventuality
2	is	past	he					greedy property	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 · ✓ the right answer

He starved himself too often

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	2 starved	nsubj
2	starved	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 starved	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	2 starved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past	He	himself = he				often property	tree rules

Option 2

He drank too much cold water

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	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	He	much cold water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 3

Old age, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 age	amod
2	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 age	punct
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 age	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He was too greedy

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 greedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 greedy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 greedy	advmod
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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