Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's map…

Bro, why was the giant grumpy at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grumpy	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 grumpy	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grumpy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grumpy	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grumpy	amod
7	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 grumpy	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 grumpy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						Bro vocative; grumpy property	tree rules

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

He wanted the gold, bruv

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was starving, mate

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	3 starving	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 starving	aux
3	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starving	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	He					mate vocative	tree rules

Option 3

He hadn't eaten in days, proper, mate

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	4 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 days	case
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proper	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	He				day	mate vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was lost, mate

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	3 lost	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		He				mate vocative	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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