Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

Who did the ass bump into first, the cat or the hen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: ass bump

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 728 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a maiden into a nightingale, and her shepherd lover wins her back» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bump	det
4	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bump	compound
5	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 did	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 hen	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hen	det
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cat	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the ass bump					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=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

The hen, who was sat in the road looking proper gutted and cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hen	det
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sat	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	aux:pass
6	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hen	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 gutted	advmod
12	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 looking	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cross	cc
14	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 looking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · passive		the hen	the road		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in road=Location
2	look	gerund	the hen				tree rules
3	gut	participle	the hen not said here			properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cross	infinitive	the hen not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The hen, perched on the gate there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hen	det
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perched	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hen	punct
4	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perched	obl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 perched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perch	participle	the hen			the gate; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gate=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The cat, sat in the road looking gutted and sad as ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cat	punct
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
9	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 looking	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sad	cc
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 ever	case
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sit	past	the cat	the road	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location
2	look	gerund	the cat not said here		tree rules
3	gut	participle	the cat not said here		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The cat, sat in the road looking gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cat	punct
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
9	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 looking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sit	past	the cat	the road	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location
2	look	gerund	the cat not said here		tree rules
3	gut	participle	the cat not said here		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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