Test 12 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

Was the old lady nice to the lad at the hut, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: be, innit

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nice	nsubj
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lad	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nice	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 hut	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hut	det
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lad	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old lady					to the lad at the hut; nice property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she gave him stew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	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 gave	iobj
6	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	stew	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stew=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she slammed the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slammed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slammed	nsubj
4	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slammed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	past	she	the door					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, she said come in and gave him a warm bowl of milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bowl	det
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bowl	amod
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 milk	case
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bowl	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	she not said here	a warm bowl of milk	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bowl=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said come in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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