Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red: the dwarf ge…

The bear was totally gonna eat them, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: be, innit

This is test 5 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	cop
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
5	gonna	gonna	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bear					eat, totally property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the bear not said here						tree rules

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

Yeah, the girls ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the girls						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he ate the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 3

Nah, he went for the dwarf instead and left the girls alone by the fire

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 dwarf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarf	det
7	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 left	obj
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 left	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					for the dwarf; instead property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dwarf=Beneficiary
2	leave	past	he not said here	the girls				by the fire; alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme by fire=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he went for the dwarf instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 dwarf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarf	det
7	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					for the dwarf; instead property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dwarf=Beneficiary

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