Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…
The merchant only gave two talers a skin, that's gutted, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: give, gut · To what, where: two talers, that
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 talers | nummod |
| 6 | talers | taler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skin | det |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gutted | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gutted | aux:pass |
| 12 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gutted | punct |
| 14 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the merchant | two talers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent taler=Recipient skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gut | present · passive | that | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the greedy lot got ripped off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 ripped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ripped | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 4 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lot | amod |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ripped | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ripped | aux:pass |
| 7 | ripped | rip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 ripped | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rip off | past · passive | the greedy lot | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
Yeah, they were cheated badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cheated | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cheated | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheated | aux:pass |
| 5 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 cheated | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheat | past · passive | they | badly property | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
Option 3
Yeah, that's rough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rough | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rough | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 rough | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rough | cop |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | rough property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, two talers was fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 fair | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 talers | nummod |
| 4 | talers | taler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fair | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fair | cop |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | two talers | fair property | tree rules |
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