Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

So is the raven a real soothsayer, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raven · What happens: be · To what, where: real soothsayer

This is test 6 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 soothsayer	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 soothsayer	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soothsayer	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 soothsayer	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soothsayer	amod
7	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soothsayer	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 soothsayer	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 soothsayer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the raven	a real soothsayer					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

nah, the peasant was just tricking the miller and the parson all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 tricking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tricking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tricking	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 tricking	advmod
7	tricking	trick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 miller	det
9	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tricking	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 parson	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 parson	det
12	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 miller	conj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 along	advmod
14	along	along	ADV	_	7 tricking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · progressive	the peasant	the miller and the parson				along property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Patient

Option 2

yeah, the raven knew the future for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 future	det
7	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 real	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the raven	the future				for real	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer future=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, the peasant was just pinching his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 pinching	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pinching	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pinching	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 pinching	advmod
7	pinching	pinch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pinching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past · progressive	the peasant	peasant's head					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 4

nah, the peasant only fooled the miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fooled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fooled	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 fooled	advmod
6	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 miller	det
8	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fooled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past	the peasant	the miller					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Patient

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