Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Why'd the soldiers wanna bounce, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldiers, you · What happens: wanna, innit · To what, where: bounce

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 741 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the tailor tricks the giants and wins a place at the king's court» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wanna	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wanna	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanna	nsubj
5	wanna	wanna	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 innit	advcl
6	bounce	bounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanna	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanna	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wanna	would	the soldiers	bounce					tree rules
2	innit	imperative	you not said here						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

They were bored

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	3 bored	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Too cold out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod

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

Option 3

They were scared of ghosts

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 ghosts	case
5	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					of ghosts; scared property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They feared seven-at-once

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feared	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 at	punct
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 feared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	They	seven					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seven=Stimulus

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