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

Proper lol, what did the cow do when he tried to milk her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Proper, he · What happens: do, try · To what, where: cow, milk

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 do	nsubj
2	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Proper	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Proper	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cow	det
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 tried	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tried	nsubj
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 milk	mark
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tried	obj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tried	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the cow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Eventuality
2	do	present	Proper		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	try	past	he	milk	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus milk=Experiencer she=Result

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

bit him on the hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bit	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past		him = he		the hand			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on hand=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

kicked him on the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kicked	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		him = he		the head			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on head=Location

Option 3

threw him off and kicked him in the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 threw	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kicked	cc
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 threw	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw off	past		him = he					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	kick	past		him = he		the head			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in head=Location

Option 4

kicked him on the head and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kicked	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kicked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 kicked	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		him = he		the head			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on head=Location
2	run off	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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