Test 8 · ★ · Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the…

Ain't it wild the cock sat on the cat's head?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ai, cock · What happens: not wild, sit · To what, where: head

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 729 «Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the animals' noisy concert» 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	Ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wild	nsubj
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wild	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wild	nsubj
4	wild	wild	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cock	det
6	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 head	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 head	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 cat	case
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wild	infinitive	Ai						tree rules
2	sit	past	the cock			the cat's head			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they stacked up like a circus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stacked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stacked	nsubj
4	stacked	stack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stacked	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 circus	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 circus	det
8	circus	circus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stack up	past	they					like a circus	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, they climbed up like monkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 climbed	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 monkeys	case
7	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	they					like monkeys	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, they piled up like bricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 piled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 piled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 piled	nsubj
4	piled	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 piled	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 bricks	case
7	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 piled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pile up	past	they					like bricks	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

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