Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

bro, why did Elsie tap the lid while she walked?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Elsie · What happens: tap, walk · To what, where: lid

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tap	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tap	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tap	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tap	aux
5	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tap	nsubj
6	tap	tap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lid	det
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tap	obj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 walked	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tap	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	past · do-support	Elsie	the lid				bro vocative	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent lid=Location
2	walk	past	Elsie						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

so time wouldn't drag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 drag	advmod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drag	obl:unmarked
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drag	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 drag	advmod
5	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drag	would					time		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2

cause the lid was super loose and rattling on the barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lid	det
3	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loose	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loose	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 loose	advmod
6	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rattling	cc
8	rattling	rattle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 loose	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 barrel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rattling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the lid		loose, super property	tree rules
3	rattle	gerund	the lid not said here	the barrel		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on barrel=Location

Option 3

so her hands stay warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	her hands					warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

so the barrel wouldn't dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 dry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barrel	det
3	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dry	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dry	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dry	advmod
6	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dry	would	the barrel						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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