Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel: Hans carries each gift…
Gutted, what happened to the goat by the time Hans got home?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hans · What happens: gut, happen, get · To what, where: time
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 766 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel: Hans carries each gift home the wrong way until Gretel leaves him» 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gutted | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 goat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goat | det |
| 7 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 11 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | happen | past | time | to the goat | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Hans | the time not said here | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
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
It got suffocated in his pocket and died.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suffocated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffocated | aux:pass |
| 3 | suffocated | suffocate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pocket | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 6 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffocated | obl | ||
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 died | cc |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffocated | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffocated | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffocate | past · passive | It | his pocket | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It got suffocated.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suffocated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffocated | aux:pass |
| 3 | suffocated | suffocate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffocated | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffocate | past · passive | It | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
It got trampled.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trampled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trampled | aux:pass |
| 3 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trampled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trample | past · passive | It | tree rules |
Option 4
It got squashed flat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 squashed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 squashed | aux:pass |
| 3 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 3 squashed | advmod |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squashed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | past · passive | It | flat property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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