Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

When the fiddle started, did the miser just stand there like a plank?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fiddle · What happens: start, do, stand · To what, where: miser

This is test 6 · ★ 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 started	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fiddle	det
3	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 started	punct
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 miser	det
8	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stand	obl
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 stand	advmod
10	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	ccomp
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stand	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 plank	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plank	det
14	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stand	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	the fiddle				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	do	past					tree rules
3	stand	present		the miser	there	like a plank	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 was dancing like mad all round the bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dancing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dancing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancing	aux
5	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 mad	case
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dancing	obl
8	all	all	ADV	_	5 dancing	advmod
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 bush	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bush	det
11	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	he			the bush		like mad; all property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round bush=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, he was dancing a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dancing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dancing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dancing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancing	aux
5	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dancing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	he	a bit					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he was jigging wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 jigging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jigging	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jigging	aux
5	jigging	jig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 jigging	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jig	past · progressive	he					wild property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was dancing like mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dancing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dancing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancing	aux
5	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 mad	case
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	he					like mad	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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