Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…

Dude, so Tom got eaten by a cow, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cow · What happens: eat · To what, where: Tom

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 eaten	advmod
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	nsubj
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux:pass
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Dude	appos
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Dude	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive	a cow	Tom					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

Yep, then a wolf ate him too, and the cow too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ate	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ate	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	6 ate	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cow	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cow	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cow	det
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	parataxis
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 cow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	a wolf	him = he			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, a wolf got him too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	a wolf	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, then a wolf ate him too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ate	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ate	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	6 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	a wolf	him = he			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Nah, the cow spit him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 spit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spit	nsubj
5	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spit	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 spit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit out	infinitive	the cow	him = he					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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