Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades…

Why was Hans gutted about the pig?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut · To what, where: Hans

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gutted	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	aux:pass
3	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gutted	nsubj
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 pig	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pig	det
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		Hans				about the pig	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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

it might be the parson's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 parson	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 parson	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 parson	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parson	det
5	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	's	's	PART	_	5 parson	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	it					's the parson	tree rules

Option 2

the pig might be the squire's and he would hang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pig	det
2	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squire	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 squire	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 squire	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 squire	det
6	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	's	's	PART	_	6 squire	case
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hang	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hang	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hang	aux
11	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 squire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	the pig					's the squire	tree rules
2	hang	would	pig						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it could be the squire's and he'd be beaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 squire	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 squire	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 squire	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 squire	det
5	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	's	's	PART	_	5 squire	case
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beaten	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beaten	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 beaten	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 beaten	aux:pass
11	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 squire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	it					's the squire	tree rules
2	beat	would · passive		squire					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it could be the squire's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 squire	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 squire	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 squire	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 squire	det
5	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	's	's	PART	_	5 squire	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	it					's the squire	tree rules

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