Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

Oi, did Elsie actually fall asleep in the corn instead of cutting it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: fall, cut · To what, where: corn

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 758 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fall	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
4	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fall	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 corn	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 corn	det
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 cutting	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fall	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cutting	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · do-support	Oi			the corn		actually, asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in corn=Location
2	cut	gerund	Oi not said here	corn					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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, she nodded off, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 nodded	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nodded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod off	past	she						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	innit	infinitive	she not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mate, she was out cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cold	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cold	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cold	cop
7	out	out	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					cold, out property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, mate, she was totally out cold in the corn all afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cold	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cold	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cold	cop
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 cold	advmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	9 cold	advmod
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 corn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corn	det
12	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cold	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 afternoon	det
14	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cold	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			the corn	afternoon	cold, out, totally property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, mate, she was out cold and snoring loud in the middle of it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cold	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cold	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cold	cop
7	out	out	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 snoring	cc
10	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cold	conj
11	loud	loud	ADV	_	10 snoring	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snoring	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					cold, out property	tree rules
2	snore	gerund	she not said here					in the middle of middle; loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in middle=Theme

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