Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

Did the servant get paid proper wages for three years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pay · To what, where: servant

This is test 3 · ★ 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	5 paid	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux:pass
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wages	amod
7	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive · do-support		the servant			year		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient wage=Asset

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

Yeah, paid a lot, pretty fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fair	amod
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past		a lot					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Asset

Option 2

Nah, just threepence after all that work, which is totally unfair to him

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threepence	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threepence	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 threepence	advmod
4	threepence	threepence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 work	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 work	det:predet
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 work	det
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threepence	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unfair	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 unfair	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unfair	cop
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	13 unfair	advmod
13	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 threepence	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 unfair	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	threepence after all work		him = he			totally, unfair property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, just threepence, that's dead harsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threepence	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 threepence	advmod
4	threepence	threepence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 harsh	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 harsh	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 harsh	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 harsh	amod
9	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 threepence	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	threepence	threepence not said here				harsh property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, just threepence for three years, that's dead harsh and well mean

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threepence	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 threepence	advmod
4	threepence	threepence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mean	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threepence	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 harsh	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 harsh	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 harsh	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 harsh	amod
12	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 threepence	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 well	cc
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 harsh	conj
15	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					harsh property	tree rules
2	mean	present	threepence for three years						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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