Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei…

Why did his mum not believe him at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: not believe · To what, where: him

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 believe	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believe	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 believe	advmod
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 believe	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not believe	past · do-support	his mum	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 dressed in a dodgy shepherd's frock

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 dressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux:pass
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 frock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shepherd	det
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shepherd	amod
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frock	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 shepherd	case
9	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		He		a dodgy shepherd's frock			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

He had been gone for many long years

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 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 gone	aux:pass
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect · passive		He			year		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

He was too dirty

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 dirty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dirty	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dirty	advmod
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					dirty property	tree rules

Option 4

He was dressed in a dodgy shepherd's frock and smelled of the sea

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 dressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux:pass
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 frock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shepherd	det
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shepherd	amod
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frock	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 shepherd	case
9	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smelled	cc
11	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		He		a dodgy shepherd's frock			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	smell	past						of the sea	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of sea=Theme

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