Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

Gutted for the frogs, why did he go all sad after?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: gut, go after

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 767 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was: the youth calms the dogs, hears the frogs, and becomes Pope» 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	for	for	ADP	_	4 frogs	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frogs	det
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gutted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 go	advmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 frogs	acl:relcl
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 sad	advmod
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp
12	after	after	ADP	_	9 go	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						for the frogs	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go after	past · do-support	he					sad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He realised the frogs were really cursed princes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 realised	nsubj
2	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frogs	det
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 princes	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 princes	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 cursed	advmod
7	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 princes	amod
8	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 realised	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	realise	past	He		tree rules
2	curse	participle			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the frogs	cursed princes	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He understood what they said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 understood	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3

He understood that the frogs had been sent by the Pope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sent	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frogs	det
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 sent	aux:pass
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 understood	ccomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 Pope	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pope	det
11	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	send	past · perfect · passive	the Pope	the frogs					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

He saw the marsh was dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marsh	det
4	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the marsh					dark property	tree rules

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