Test 8 · ★ · Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize,…
did the king get mad when the brothers did the dirty?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: do, get · To what, where: king, dirty
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 did | obj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 did | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brothers | det |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dirty | det |
| 11 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 did | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | present | mad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do | past | the brothers | the dirty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirty=Eventuality |
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
Nope, they got a reward instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reward | det |
| 6 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | a reward | instead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus |
Option 2
Nah, pardoned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 pardoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, they got let off easy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux:pass |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 let | compound:prt |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 let | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let off | past · passive | they | easy property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they got seized and punished
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 seized | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | aux:pass |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 punished | cc |
| 7 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seized | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | they | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | punish | participle | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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