Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

Did the farmer want to keep the ass, or get shot of him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: want, keep, get · To what, where: ass, shot

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 farmer	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ass	det
8	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 keep	conj
12	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shot	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	the farmer		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here	the ass	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme
3	get	infinitive	the farmer not said here	shot of farmer	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shot=Stimulus

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

He wanted to get rid of him because he was too old to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rid	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 old	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 old	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 old	advmod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 work	mark
14	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 old	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	past	He		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is not said to happen	past	he	old property	tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He wanted to keep him and feed him well all through the winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feed	cc
7	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feed	iobj
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 all	advmod
10	all	all	ADV	_	7 feed	advmod
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 winter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 winter	det
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	him = he				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	feed	present	He not said here		him = he	winter	all property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted to get rid of him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He wanted to feed him more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 feed	mark
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feed	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 feed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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