Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

Yo, why'd they shove the granddad in the corner, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: shove, innit · To what, where: granddad, corner

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 shove	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 shove	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 shove	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shove	nsubj
6	shove	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 granddad	det
8	granddad	granddad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shove	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corner	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corner	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shove	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shove	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	present	they	the granddad		the corner			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent granddad=Theme in corner=Destination
2	innit	infinitive	they not said here						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

cos he was loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				loud property	tree rules

Option 2

'cos he was a right nuisance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 nuisance	punct
2	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 nuisance	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nuisance	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nuisance	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nuisance	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nuisance	amod
7	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a right nuisance					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos he kept spilling his grub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spilling	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grub	nmod:poss
6	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spilling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	cos						tree rules
2	spill	gerund	cos not said here	cos's grub					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grub=Theme

Option 4

cos he's old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	cos not said here				old property	tree rules

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