Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, The Water of Life, part 50: Dummling's three tasks…

Dude, how did the dwarf treat the youngest son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude, dwarf · What happens: do, treat · To what, where: youngest son

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 774 «Grimm, The Water of Life, part 50: Dummling's three tasks end, and the youngest prince wins the dwarf's help» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarf	det
6	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 treat	nsubj
7	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 son	det
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treat	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	treat	present	the dwarf		the youngest son				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient

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 right answer

he was kind and helpful

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 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 helpful	cc
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					kind property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 2

he was kind, helpful, and shared his bread

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 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 helpful	punct
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kind	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shared	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shared	cc
8	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bread	nmod:poss
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		kind property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here			tree rules
3	share	past	he not said here	his bread		tree rules

Option 3

he shared his food and was very polite

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 shared	nsubj
2	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shared	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 polite	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 polite	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 polite	advmod
8	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	he	his food					tree rules
2	is	past	he not said here					polite property	tree rules

Option 4

he was cruel and mean

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 cruel	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cruel	cop
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mean	cc
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cruel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					cruel property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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