Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fundevogel: the children escape the c…

ngl the cook was so mad at them, why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ngl, be · To what, where: cook

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 740 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fundevogel: the children escape the cook by magic» 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	parataxis
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 why	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 mad	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here	the cook					tree rules
2	is	past						at them = they; mad property	tree rules

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 servants had let the children slip through their fingers twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 slip	nsubj
7	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 let	ccomp
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 fingers	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fingers	nmod:poss
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 slip	obl
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 slip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · perfect · passive		the servants					tree rules
2	slip	present	the children			children's fingers		twice property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they came back with nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	they					with nothing	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the servants had failed to bring back the children at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 failed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 failed	aux
4	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 failed	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 bring	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past · perfect	the servants						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not bring back	to-infinitive	the servants not said here		the children	all			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination

Option 4

they had been fooled by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fooled	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fooled	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fooled	aux:pass
4	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 magic	case
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fooled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past · perfect · passive	magic	they					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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