Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei…
Was it a proper deal with the dwarf or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: proper deal
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 777 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Heinel is set adrift, wins magic gifts, and finds his queen about to remarry» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deal | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deal | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dwarf | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dwarf | det |
| 8 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deal | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 dwarf | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 deal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a proper deal | with the dwarf a proper deal | 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
A fair fight, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fight | amod |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fight | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, the dwarf won, mate, fair and square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 won | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwarf | det |
| 4 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | nsubj |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fair | punct |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 won | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 square | cc |
| 11 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fair | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | the dwarf | mate vocative | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, he won
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 won | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 won | nsubj |
| 4 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | he | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A drawn battle, mate, both sides got a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 2 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 battle | amod |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 battle | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 battle | punct |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sides | det |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | get | past | a drawn battle and mate | a bit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus |
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