Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

That shepherd was mint, gullible as anything, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shepherd · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mint	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mint	cop
4	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gullible	punct
6	gullible	gullible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mint	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 gullible	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 yeah	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mint	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that shepherd					mint property	tree rules
2	be		that shepherd not said here					as anything	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

Totally, he was so keen to be mayor that he jumped in the barrel without a second thought

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	6 keen	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 keen	advmod
6	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 mayor	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 mayor	cop
9	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keen	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 jumped	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 jumped	nsubj
12	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 barrel	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barrel	det
15	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jumped	obl
16	without	without	ADP	_	19 thought	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thought	det
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 thought	amod
19	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			keen, totally property	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	he not said here	mayor			tree rules
3	jump	past	he		the barrel	without a second thought	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barrel=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, he was sharp, but he got caught out when the peasant mentioned the sheep and the priest

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sharp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sharp	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sharp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sharp	cop
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 caught	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caught	nsubj:pass
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	aux:pass
10	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sharp	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 caught	compound:prt
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 mentioned	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 peasant	det
14	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mentioned	nsubj
15	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sheep	det
17	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mentioned	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 priest	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 priest	det
20	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sharp	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		sharp property	tree rules
2	catch out	past · passive		he		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	mention speech: other	past	the peasant	the sheep		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sheep=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Totally, he fell for the sheep trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 trick	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sheep	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sheep	det
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
8	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	he					for the sheep; totally property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sheep=Theme
2	trick	present							vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Totally, he fell for the mayor trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 trick	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trick	det
7	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trick	compound
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	he					for the mayor trick; totally property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for trick=Theme

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