Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

Oi, so Hans spent his last penny on the cow, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: spend · To what, where: last penny

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spent	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 spent	advmod
4	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spent	nsubj
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 penny	nmod:poss
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 penny	amod
8	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 cow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	5 spent	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	Oi	Hans's last penny				on the cow goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent penny=Asset on cow=Goal

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

Yeah, he was totally skint after that and walked home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 skint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 skint	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 skint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skint	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 skint	advmod
6	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 skint	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walked	cc
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skint	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				after that	skint, totally property	tree rules
2	walk	past	he not said here					home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he got the cow for free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 free	case
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	the cow				for free	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for free=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was skint after that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 skint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 skint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skint	cop
5	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 skint	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				after that	skint property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was skint and buzzing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 skint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 skint	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 skint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skint	cop
5	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buzzing	cc
7	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 skint	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					skint property	tree rules
2	buzz	gerund	he not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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