Test 9 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

Where'd the lad head after getting the cat, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad head · What happens: get · To what, where: cat

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 getting	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 getting	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	compound
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 getting	nsubj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 getting	mark
7	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 getting	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 getting	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 getting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the lad head	the cat				mate vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

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

straight to the royal palace to see the king himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 palace	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 palace	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palace	amod
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 palace	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 king	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		the king king					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 town	mark
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to the royal palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palace	amod
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

to the old mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 mill	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mill	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mill	amod
4	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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