Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

Did the miser keep his money from the servant?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: miser · What happens: keep · To what, where: money, servant

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miser	det
3	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 money	nmod:poss
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 servant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 servant	det
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the miser	miser's money		the servant			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer money=Beneficiary from servant=Eventuality

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

Nah, he'd cheated someone for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheated	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheated	aux
5	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 cheated	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 someone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past · perfect	he	someone				for it	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Source

Option 2

Nah, he'd cheated someone for it and got caught out later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheated	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheated	aux
5	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 cheated	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 someone	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 caught	cc
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 caught	aux:pass
11	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cheated	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 caught	compound:prt
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past · perfect	he	someone				for it	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Source
2	catch out	past · passive	he not said here					late property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

Nah, he gave it back right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	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 gave	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	past	he	it				away property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he kept it, nobody knew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	know	past	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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