Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

Yo, did Catherine seriously let the dog nick the steak, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Catherine, dog · What happens: let, nick · To what, where: steak

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 752 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless wife ruins the dinner, and the gold is stolen.» 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	_	4 Catherine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Catherine	aux
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
5	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nick	nsubj
9	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 steak	det
11	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nick	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 let	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	Catherine					seriously property	tree rules
2	nick	infinitive	the dog	the steak					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steak=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

Nah, the dog never touched it, she gave it to the pedlars for free

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 touched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 touched	advmod
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touched	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 pedlars	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pedlars	det
14	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 free	case
16	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pedlars	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	past	the dog	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	give	past	dog	it	the pedlars for free				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to pedlar=Recipient

Option 2

Yeah, she left the steak on the pan and the dog nicked the whole lot while she was down the cellar

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steak	det
6	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 pan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pan	det
9	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nicked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nicked	nsubj
13	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lot	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lot	amod
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nicked	obj
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 cellar	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cellar	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cellar	cop
20	down	down	ADP	_	22 cellar	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cellar	det
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nicked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	she	the steak	the pan		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent steak=Theme on pan=Location
2	nick	past	the dog	the whole lot			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
3	is	past	dog			down the cellar	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the mutt legged it with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 legged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 legged	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mutt	det
4	mutt	mutt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legged	nsubj
5	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 legged	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 legged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	the mutt	it				with it	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the dog ran off with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the dog					with it	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material

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