Test 11 · ★ · Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair

Wicked, what did the boy say about the wild flowers?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 785 «Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 flowers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flowers	det
10	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flowers	compound
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 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 boy					about the wild flowers	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

the garden ones have less scent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ones	compound
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 scent	amod
6	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the garden ones	less scent					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient

Option 2

the garden ones have a fine scent but the wild ones have more colour and light

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ones	compound
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scent	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scent	amod
7	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 colour	amod
14	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 light	cc
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 colour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the garden ones	a fine scent					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient
2	have	present	the wild ones	more colour and light					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 3

the wild ones have a stronger scent because they grow freely in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scent	det
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 scent	amod
7	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 grow	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grow	nsubj
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	advcl
11	freely	freely	ADV	_	10 grow	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the wild ones	a stronger scent					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient
2	grow	present	they			the forest		freely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the wild ones have more scent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 scent	amod
6	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the wild ones	more scent					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient

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