Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

Was Elsie's door open when she got back?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Elsie · What happens: be, get back · To what, where: door

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 door	cop
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 door	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Elsie	case
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	csubj
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	advcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Elsie's door					tree rules
2	get back	past	Elsie						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nah, it was shut, bruv, so she had to knock loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shut	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	cop
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 knock	mark
13	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 knock	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	bruv vocative; shut property	tree rules
2	have	past	she		tree rules
3	knock	to-infinitive	she not said here	loud property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was shut, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shut	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	cop
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					bruv vocative; shut property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was locked, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 locked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 locked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	aux:pass
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locked	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		it				mate vocative	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Nah, it was shut tight and Hans had locked it, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 tight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tight	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tight	cop
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tight	amod
6	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 locked	cc
8	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 locked	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 locked	aux
10	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tight	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 locked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					tight property	tree rules
2	lock	past · perfect	Hans	it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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