Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's d…

Bro, what were the robbers' three drinks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: three drinks

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 747 «Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's daughter escapes the robbers' house» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drinks	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 drinks	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drinks	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drinks	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 robbers	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 drinks	nummod
9	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bro	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro and the robbers's three drinks	the robbers's three drinks					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

White, red, and yellow wine poured from the robbers' own barrels in the cellar

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poured	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 White	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 poured	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poured	cc
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wine	amod
7	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poured	nsubj
8	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	14 barrels	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 robbers	det
11	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 barrels	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 robbers	case
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 barrels	amod
14	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poured	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cellar	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cellar	det
17	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 barrels	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	participle	yellow wine			the robbers's own barrels in the cellar			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from barrel=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

White, red, and yellow wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 White	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wine	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wine	cc
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wine	amod
7	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 White	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Three different wines, each one stronger than the last, which the old woman had secretly mixed for them

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 wines	nummod
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wines	amod
3	wines	wine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stronger	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stronger	punct
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stronger	obj
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 last	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 last	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stronger	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mixed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 mixed	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mixed	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mixed	aux
17	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	18 mixed	advmod
18	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stronger	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	past · perfect · passive		the old woman				for wines = wine; secretly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product

Option 4

Dark, red, and sweet cider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dark	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cider	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cider	cc
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cider	amod
7	cider	cider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dark	conj

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

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