Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize,…
wait, why did he hand over ALL his money?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, hand · To what, where: money
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 726 «Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize, Hans sets off home» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 hand | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hand | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nsubj |
| 6 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 wait | conj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 8 | ALL | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 money | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 money | nmod:poss |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hand | past · do-support | he | his money | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
To buy his brothers' freedom
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 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 brothers | case |
| 6 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | to-infinitive | his brothers's freedom | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme |
Option 2
To pay the king's tax
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 | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tax | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | to-infinitive | the king's tax | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset | |||||
| 2 | tax | the king | nom tax «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
To pay off the robbers so they would leave the village and never come back
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 pay | mark |
| 2 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | advcl |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 pay | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 robbers | det |
| 5 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pay | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 leave | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | aux |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay off | to-infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | the robbers | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Asset | ||||
| 2 | leave | would | robbers = robber | the village | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not come back | infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
To buy his brothers' freedom from the gallows in the village square
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 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 brothers | case |
| 6 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buy | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 gallows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gallows | det |
| 9 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 buy | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 square | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 square | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 square | compound |
| 13 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | to-infinitive | his brothers's freedom | the gallows | in the village square | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme from gallows=Source |
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