Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red: the dwarf ge…

Bruv, what was the dwarf doing with the jewels?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 789 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red: the dwarf gets his end» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dwarf	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 dwarf	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dwarf	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarf	det
6	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dwarf	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 jewels	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jewels	det
10	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dwarf	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						Bruv vocative; dwarf property	tree rules
2	do	gerund						with the jewels	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Dumping them out to have a look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dumping	dump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dumping	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Dumping	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dumping	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 look	det
7	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump out	gerund		them = they					vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	have	to-infinitive		a look					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Dumping them out on the grass and then trying to sell them to the girls

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dumping	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 trying	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dumping	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Dumping	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dumping	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 trying	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 trying	advmod
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sell	mark
11	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sell	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 girls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girls	det
15	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	dump out	gerund		them = they		the grass		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme on grass=Trajectory
2	try	gerund	Dumping				then	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dumping not said here	them = they	the girls			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to girl=Recipient

Option 3

Tipping them out on the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tipping	tip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tipping	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Tipping	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tipping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip out	gerund		them = they		the grass			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on grass=Destination

Option 4

Tipping out all his precious stones on the grass to have a proper look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tipping	tip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Tipping	compound:prt
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 stones	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stones	nmod:poss
5	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stones	amod
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tipping	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stones	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 have	mark
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tipping	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 look	det
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 look	amod
14	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip out	gerund		his precious stones		the grass			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on grass=Destination
2	have	to-infinitive		a proper look					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

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