Test 6 · ★ · Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a…

Ngl, what was the queen's problem with her hubby?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: problem

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 742 «Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a unicorn and a boar, and frightens off his foes» 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 problem	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 problem	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 problem	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 problem	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 queen	case
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 hubby	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hubby	nmod:poss
11	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 problem	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 problem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the queen's problem				with Ngl's hubby	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

He ate her food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	her food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2

He kept talking about the king in his sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sleep	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sleep	nmod:poss
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He			tree rules
2	talk	gerund	He not said here	king's sleep	about the king	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about king=Topic
3	sleep		king			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He snored too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snored	nsubj
2	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 snored	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	past	He					loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She heard him talk in his sleep about sewing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sleep	nmod:poss
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 sewing	case
9	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	She	him = he			tree rules
2	talk	infinitive	him = he not said here		his sleep about sewing		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep		his = he			about sewing	nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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