Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

Did the peasant actually get the shepherd in the barrel?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, get · To what, where: peasant, shepherd, barrel

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasant	det
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherd	det
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 barrel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 barrel	det
10	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the peasant					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peasant=Eventuality
2	get	present		the shepherd		the barrel		actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he shut the top on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	he	the top				on him = he	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent top=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the shepherd climbed in himself and asked the peasant to close the barrel

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	nsubj
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 climbed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peasant	det
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 close	mark
13	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barrel	det
15	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 close	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	climb	past	the shepherd			in shepherd	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in himself=Trajectory
2	ask speech: ask	past	the shepherd not said here		the peasant		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient clause=Topic
3	close not said to happen	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here	the barrel			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he locked the lid on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 locked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 locked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 locked	nsubj
4	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lid	det
6	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	4 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past	he	the lid					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he hammered the lid shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hammered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hammered	nsubj
4	hammered	hammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lid	det
6	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hammered	obj
7	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hammered	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hammer	past	he	the lid				shut property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient

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