Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

Wait, so the ale just ran out the cask the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ale · What happens: wait, run out · To what, where: cask

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 ran	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ale	det
5	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 ran	advmod
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cask	det
10	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run out	past	the ale	the cask			time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cask=Theme

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

Nah, she turned it right off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 off	advmod
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she	it				off property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she forgot to turn the cock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 turn	mark
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forgot	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cock	det
8	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	she						tree rules
2	not turn	to-infinitive	she not said here	the cock					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme cock=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she never shut the tap so the beer just kept pouring out all night long

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 shut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shut	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 shut	advmod
5	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tap	det
7	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	obj
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 kept	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beer	det
10	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 kept	advmod
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	advcl
13	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kept	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 pouring	compound:prt
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pouring	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 pouring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not shut	past	she	the tap			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tap=Patient
2	keep	past	the beer				tree rules
3	pour out	gerund	the beer not said here		night	long property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

Nah, the cask leaked from the bottom because the wood had rotted through years ago

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cask	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cask	det
4	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	leaked	leak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cask	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaked	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 rotted	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rotted	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rotted	aux
13	rotted	rot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 leaked	advcl
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rotted	obl
16	ago	ago	ADV	_	15 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leak	participle		the cask not said here		the bottom			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from bottom=Source
2	rot	past · perfect · passive		the wood			year		tree rules

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