Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

So Frederick hid his gold, then the pedlars nicked it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Frederick, pedlars · What happens: hide, nick · To what, where: gold

This is test 8 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hid	advmod
2	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gold	nmod:poss
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nicked	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 nicked	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pedlars	det
9	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nicked	nsubj
10	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nicked	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	Frederick	Frederick's gold					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient
2	nick	past	the pedlars	gold			then		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Yeah, the pedlars came back in the night, dug up the box in the garden and rode off with every coin

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pedlars	det
4	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dug	advcl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dug	punct
11	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 dug	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 box	det
14	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dug	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dug	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rode	cc
19	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dug	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 rode	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 coin	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 coin	det
23	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the pedlars			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dig up	participle		the box	the garden			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Theme in garden=Location
3	ride off	past					with every coin	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, Frederick dug it up himself before the pedlars came and hid it under the cellar floor instead

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	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 dug	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 dug	compound:prt
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 dug	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pedlars	det
10	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dug	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hid	cc
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dug	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hid	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	18 floor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 floor	det
17	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floor	compound
18	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hid	obl
19	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	Frederick	it		Frederick obl	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	come	past	the pedlars				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	past	Frederick not said here	it	the cellar floor	instead property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under floor=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they dug it up and bounced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dug	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 dug	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bounced	cc
8	bounced	bounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dug	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	they	it					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	bounce	participle	they not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nope, Frederick moved it somewhere safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 moved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 moved	nsubj
4	moved	move	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 moved	obj
6	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 moved	advmod
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moved	xcomp

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

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