Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…

Why were the brothers so jealous, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, innit

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 jealous	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jealous	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 jealous	advmod
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 jealous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the brothers					jealous property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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 found the water they sought

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sought	nsubj
6	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 water	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	He	the water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic
2	seek	past	they	the water not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

Because the youngest found the water they had wanted for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 found	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youngest	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wanted	aux
9	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 water	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the youngest	the water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic
2	want	past · perfect	they	the water not said here			year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 3

He found the Water of Life that they wanted

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Water	det
4	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Life	case
6	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Water	nmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wanted	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	He	the Water of Life					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic
2	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He found the water they wanted

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 water	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	He	the water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic
2	want	past	they	the water not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

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