Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is mar…

what did the fiddler say about servants?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fiddler · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 783 «Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is married off to a beggar fiddler» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fiddler	det
4	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 servants	case
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the fiddler					about servants	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

we fetch our own water, no help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fetch	nsubj
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 water	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 help	det
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	present	we	our own water				no help obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

we do our own chores, no servants, and we like it that way

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chores	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chores	amod
5	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 servants	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 servants	det
8	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chores	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 like	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	obj
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present · do-support	we	it					tree rules

Option 3

we do our own chores and cooking, no servants in the house at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chores	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chores	amod
5	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cooking	cc
7	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chores	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 servants	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 servants	det
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chores	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 servants	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	we	our own chores and cooking and no servants in the house		all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

we do our own chores, no servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chores	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chores	amod
5	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 servants	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 servants	det
8	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chores	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	we	our own chores and no servants					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

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