Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

Was Catherine actually clever or just an idiot?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Catherine

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Catherine	cop
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clever	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 idiot	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 idiot	advmod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 idiot	det
8	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clever	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Catherine					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 · ✓ the right answer

Bit of both, she was a proper muppet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 muppet	obl:unmarked
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 both	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Bit	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bit	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 muppet	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 muppet	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 muppet	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 muppet	amod
9	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a proper muppet				Bit of both obl:unmarked	tree rules

Option 2

Clever, actually, she sorted out the cask and the dog, but a bit careless with the meal and the steak

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADV	_	6 sorted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Clever	punct
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 sorted	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sorted	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sorted	nsubj
6	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 sorted	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cask	det
9	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorted	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dog	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cask	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 careless	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 careless	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 careless	obl:unmarked
17	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sorted	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 meal	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meal	det
20	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 careless	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 steak	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 steak	det
23	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	she	the cask and the dog				actually, clever property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme

Option 3

Bit of both, she was a bit silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silly	obl:unmarked
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 both	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Bit	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bit	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 silly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 silly	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silly	obl:unmarked
9	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					Bit of both obl:unmarked; a bit obl:unmarked; silly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Bit of both, she was clever with the pedlars but a proper muppet when it came to the steak and the cask

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clever	obl:unmarked
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 both	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Bit	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bit	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 clever	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clever	cop
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 pedlars	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pedlars	det
10	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clever	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 muppet	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 muppet	det
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 muppet	amod
14	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pedlars	conj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 muppet	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 steak	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 steak	det
20	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cask	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cask	det
23	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pedlars	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					with the pedlars but a proper muppet and the cask; Bit of both obl:unmarked; clever property	tree rules
2	come	past	muppet			the steak			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to steak=Initial_Location

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