Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom is sold,…

did the cook hear him or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook · What happens: hear · To what, where: him

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 748 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom is sold, tricks thieves, and naps in the hay» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hear	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	the cook	him = he					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

nah, she slept through the whole thing until the morning sun came up outside

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 thing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sun	compound
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	advcl
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	outside	outside	ADV	_	13 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	she			the whole thing			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come up	past	the morning sun					outside property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, she sat up in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	she			bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she heard it plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obj
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	it				plain property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

yeah, she heard it plain and woke up right away in the next room

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obj
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woke	cc
8	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 woke	compound:prt
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	8 woke	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 room	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 room	amod
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	it				plain property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	wake up	past	she not said here			the next room		away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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