Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei…
Did the giants get to keep their stuff?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: giants · What happens: do, get, keep · To what, where: stuff
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giants | det |
| 3 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | xcomp |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stuff | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | the giants | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the giants not said here | giants's stuff | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme |
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
Nah, the king took everything back home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | past | the king | everything | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, they kept the sword and the boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 boots | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boots | det |
| 9 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sword | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | they | the sword and the boots | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, they had nothing left to fight over, so they just wandered off into the hills
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wandered | advcl |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nothing | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fight | mark |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 left | xcomp |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 fight | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wandered | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 wandered | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wandered | nsubj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 wandered | advmod |
| 14 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 wandered | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hills | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hills | det |
| 18 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wandered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | they | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fight over | to-infinitive | over property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wander off | past | they | the hills | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hill=Destination |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, they had nothing left to fight over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nothing | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fight | mark |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 left | xcomp |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 fight | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | they | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fight over | to-infinitive | over property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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