Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades…

What's the grinder's job, like, actually?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: job, grinder · What happens: be, job

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grinder	det
4	grinder	grinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 job	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 grinder	case
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	1 What	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the grinder's job					actually property	tree rules
2	job		the grinder						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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

grinding knives and scissors all over town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 grinding	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 scissors	cc
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knives	conj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 town	advmod
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grinding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	gerund		knives and scissors				town obl	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient

Option 2

selling pots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 selling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		pots					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme

Option 3

mending pots and sharpening old tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 mending	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sharpening	cc
4	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 mending	conj
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tools	amod
6	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sharpening	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	gerund		pots					tree rules
2	sharpen	gerund		old tools					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tool=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

grinding knives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 grinding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	gerund		knives					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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