Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a…

dummling's bro hurt his arm with the axe, dead

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: hurt · To what, where: arm

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 773 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a stick and a horse free the maiden, then Dummling's goose gathers a crowd» 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	dummling	dummling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bro	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 dummling	case
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	nsubj
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arm	nmod:poss
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 axe	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 axe	det
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 axe	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	dummling's bro	bro's arm				with the axe	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient

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

the old man cut him with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the old man	him = he				with a knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with knife=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his own axe cut him, the old man did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 axe	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 axe	amod
3	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	his own axe	him = he					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
2	do	past	the old man	axe					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

his brother's axe hit his foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 axe	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 brother	case
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 foot	nmod:poss
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	his brother's axe	his foot					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Co-Theme

Option 4

his own axe, dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 axe	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 axe	amod
3	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 axe	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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