Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre…

Proper sus, why didn't the thorns gobble him up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Proper sus · What happens: not gobble up · To what, where: him

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sus	amod
2	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gobble	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gobble	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 gobble	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gobble	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gobble	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thorns	det
8	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gobble	nsubj
9	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gobble	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 gobble	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 gobble	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not gobble up	past · do-support	Proper sus	him = he					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 right answer

the hundred years were up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 were	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be up	past	the hundred years						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the thorns grew weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thorns	det
2	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the thorns					weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the hundred years were finally up that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 day	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 day	cop
5	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 day	advmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hundred years				up that day	finally property	tree rules

Option 4

the spell had run out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	past · perfect · passive		the spell					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

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