Test 1 · ★ · Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest s…

so the fox was totally straight with the youngest son, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 725 «Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest son catches the bird, is caught, and must fetch a golden horse» 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	so	so	ADV	_	10 son	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 son	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 straight	advmod
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 son	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 son	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 son	det
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 son	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fox					with the youngest son; straight 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

Nah, he tricked them once or twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 tricked	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 twice	cc
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 once	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	them = they				once property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, he gave good advice, but he also stole the golden apples himself later

The tree, 14 words

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 advice	amod
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stole	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 stole	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stole	nsubj
10	also	also	ADV	_	11 stole	advmod
11	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 apples	det
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 apples	amod
14	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stole	obj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 stole	obl
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 stole	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	good advice					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
2	steal	past	he	the golden apples				himself = he obl; late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apple=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he gave good advice every time

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 advice	amod
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	good advice			time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he tricked the youngest son into the golden cage at the inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 cage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cage	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cage	amod
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 inn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 inn	det
14	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	the youngest son				into the golden cage result; at the inn	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent son=Patient into cage=Result

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