Test 5 · ★ · Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is mar…

did the maid throw cold water on him to scare him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: maid · What happens: throw, scare · To what, where: cold water, maid

This is test 5 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maid	det
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	nsubj
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 scare	mark
10	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scare	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · do-support	the maid	cold water				on him = he	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme on he=Destination
2	scare	to-infinitive	the maid not said here	maid					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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

yeah, with a bucket full of gudgeons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bucket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bucket	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bucket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bucket	det
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bucket	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gudgeons	case
8	gudgeons	gudgeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

yeah, she dumped a whole bucket full of gudgeons on his bed right away

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dumped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dumped	nsubj
4	dumped	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bucket	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bucket	amod
7	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dumped	obj
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bucket	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 gudgeons	case
10	gudgeons	gudgeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bed	nmod:poss
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gudgeons	nmod
14	right	right	ADV	_	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	4 dumped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump	past	she	a whole bucket				away property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme

Option 3

nope, she tossed a bucket of mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tossed	nsubj
4	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tossed	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 mud	case
8	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bucket	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	she	a bucket of mud					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient

Option 4

yeah, with a bucket full of gudgeons and cold water from the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bucket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bucket	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bucket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bucket	det
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bucket	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gudgeons	case
8	gudgeons	gudgeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 water	cc
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gudgeons	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 well	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 well	det
14	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gudgeons	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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