Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

so what was Elsie straight-up bawling about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Elsie · What happens: be, bawl · To what, where: Elsie

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 bawling	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 Elsie	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Elsie	cop
4	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bawling	nsubj
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 Elsie	compound:prt
8	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 bawling	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bawling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Elsie					tree rules
2	bawl speech: other	gerund	Elsie					about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

the pick-axe falling and hitting her unborn kid's head hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 axe	det
2	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 axe	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 pick	punct
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 axe	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hitting	cc
7	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 falling	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kid	nmod:poss
9	unborn	unborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kid	amod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 head	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 kid	case
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hitting	obj
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	the pick axe not said here					hard property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	gerund	the pick axe not said here	her unborn kid's head					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme

Option 2

the beam falling on her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beam	det
2	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 beam	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	the beam not said here			her head			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the pick-axe hitting her kid's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 axe	det
2	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 axe	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 pick	punct
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 axe	acl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kid	nmod:poss
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 kid	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund	the pick axe not said here	her kid's head					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme

Option 4

the lamp hitting her kid's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lamp	acl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kid	nmod:poss
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 kid	case
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund	the lamp not said here	her kid's head					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme

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