Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

Mate, what did the miller reckon the Devil was up to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: miller · What happens: reckon · To what, where: Mate

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 miller	det
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Devil	det
9	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 up	cop
11	up	up	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	9 Devil	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 up	fixed
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the miller	Mate					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme devil=Attribute

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

pretending to be the raven in the cage by the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	5 raven	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 raven	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pretending	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cage	det
8	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raven	nmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 stove	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stove	det
11	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pretending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund						by the stove	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		the raven		the cage			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

hiding in the closet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 closet	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 closet	det
4	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund				the closet			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in closet=Location

Option 3

hiding in the closet on the porch the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 closet	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 closet	det
4	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hiding	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 porch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 porch	det
7	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hiding	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hiding	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund				the closet	time	on the porch	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in closet=Location

Option 4

sitting in the attic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 attic	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 attic	det
4	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sitting	obl

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

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