Test 5 · ★ · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

ngl, why did the dad sell the cows?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad · What happens: sell · To what, where: cows

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sell	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sell	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dad	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sell	nsubj
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cows	det
9	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sell	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · do-support	the dad	the cows				ngl vocative	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

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

for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 food	case
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

to pay the old farm debts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 pay	mark
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 debts	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 debts	amod
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 debts	compound
6	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive		the old farm debts					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to buy fields and gardens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 buy	mark
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buy	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gardens	cc
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fields	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		fields and gardens					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme

Option 4

to pay debts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 pay	mark
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive		debts					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset

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