Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet,…

Dude, did the landlord catch them red-handed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: catch, hand · To what, where: them

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 738 «Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet, part 14: the goose-girl is avenged, then the friends drive to visit Mr Korbes» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 landlord	det
5	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	nsubj
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 handed	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 red	punct
10	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 catch	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · do-support	Dude	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	hand	participle	Dude not said here						vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Yeah, totally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 totally	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, the fox was asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 asleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asleep	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fox					asleep property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, the cat was caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	aux:pass
6	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		the cat					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the duck was already gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the duck					go property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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