Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

Mate, the meal thing was actually well dodgy, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: meal thing · What happens: be, innit

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dodgy	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dodgy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dodgy	cop
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 dodgy	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 dodgy	advmod
9	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 dodgy	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 dodgy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the meal thing					Mate vocative; actually, dodgy, well property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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, she sprinkled it on the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sprinkled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprinkled	nsubj
4	sprinkled	sprinkle	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 sprinkled	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprinkled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	past	she	it		the bread			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bread=Destination

Option 2

Nah, she only dropped a bit of it on the stairs and cleaned up after herself

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dropped	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 dropped	advmod
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bit	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 stairs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stairs	det
12	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dropped	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cleaned	cc
14	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dropped	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 cleaned	compound:prt
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 cleaned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	she	a bit of bit		the stairs			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme on stair=Destination
2	clean up	past	she not said here				after herself = she		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Proper, she spilt it all on the beer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	4 spilt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spilt	nsubj
4	spilt	spilt	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 spilt	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 beer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beer	det
9	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spilt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spilt	past	she	it		the beer		properly property	tree rules

Option 4

Proper, she sprinkled the fine meal all over the cellar floor and the beer got soaked through

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	4 sprinkled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprinkled	nsubj
4	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meal	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meal	amod
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprinkled	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	12 floor	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floor	compound
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprinkled	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 soaked	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beer	det
15	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 soaked	nsubj:pass
16	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 soaked	aux:pass
17	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sprinkled	conj
18	through	through	ADP	_	17 soaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	past	she	the fine meal		the cellar floor		properly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme over floor=Destination
2	soak	past · passive		the beer					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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