Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

was the guest actually gonna get his ears chopped off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ears · What happens: be, get, chop off · To what, where: guest

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guest	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guest	det
3	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	csubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
5	gonna	gonna	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chopped	nsubj
9	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	xcomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 chopped	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the guest		tree rules
2	get	imperative			actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	chop off	past	guest's ears			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

No, Gretel made it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	Gretel	it					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he was almost done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 done	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		he				almost property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Yes, she cut one ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ear	nummod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	she	one ear					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Product

Option 4

Yes, Gretel did cut off one of his ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj:pass
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cut	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ears	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ears	nmod:poss
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past · passive · do-support		Gretel					tree rules

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