Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

Was the miser well jel of the bird or just proper chilled?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chill · To what, where: miser

This is test 5 · ★ 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	3 miser	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miser	det
3	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jel	compound
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 jel	advmod
5	jel	jel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jel	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 chilled	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 chilled	advmod
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 chilled	advmod
12	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bird	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 jel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the miser					tree rules
2	chill	participle						properly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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

Well jel, he wanted that thrush for himself badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	jel	jel	INTJ	_	1 Well	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 thrush	det
7	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 wanted	obl
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	that thrush				for himself = he; badly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thrush=Theme

Option 2

Dead jel, wanted the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 jel	amod
2	jel	jel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 jel	punct
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Dead jel	the bird					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme

Option 3

Proper chilled, didn't care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 chilled	advmod
2	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 care	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chilled	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	participle						properly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not care	past · do-support							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Well jel, he wanted that thrush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	jel	jel	INTJ	_	1 Well	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 thrush	det
7	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	that thrush					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thrush=Theme

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