Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is mar…

did the youth actually get to shudder at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: do, get · To what, where: youth, shudder, end

This is test 12 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 youth	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shudder	mark
7	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the youth					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality
2	get	infinitive	the youth not said here	shudder			at the end	actually property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent shudder=Theme at end=Asset

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

yeah, after the bucket fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 fell	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bucket	det
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	the bucket					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, once the fish got on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the fish					on him = he	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on he=Source

Option 3

yep, when the cold water came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	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	come	past	the cold water						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, once the fish got on him, which took the whole bucket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bucket	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bucket	amod
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the fish					on him = he	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on he=Source
2	take	past		the whole bucket					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme

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