Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…
Did the miser get off the hook in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, get off · To what, where: miser, end
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 miser | det |
| 3 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | conj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 hook | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hook | det |
| 7 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the miser | in the end | off the hook | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miser=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | get off | present | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he admitted he stole the florins and begged the judge for mercy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 admitted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 admitted | nsubj |
| 4 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admitted | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 florins | det |
| 8 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stole | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 begged | cc |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admitted | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 judge | det |
| 12 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 mercy | case |
| 14 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | past | he | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | steal | past | he | the florins | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location florin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | he not said here | the judge | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent judge=Recipient for mercy=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he admitted he stole it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 admitted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 admitted | nsubj |
| 4 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admitted | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | past | he | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | steal | past | he | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he got off scot-free
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | scot | scot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 free | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 scot | punct |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | he | free property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, he admitted he stole it and was left at the gallows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 admitted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 admitted | nsubj |
| 4 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admitted | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 admitted | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 gallows | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gallows | det |
| 13 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | past | he | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | steal | past | he | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | he not said here | the gallows | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: at gallows=Location |
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