Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

Why did the wife hide all the nice grub in the oven?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: hide · To what, where: nice grub, oven

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hide	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hide	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	nsubj
5	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 grub	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grub	det
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grub	amod
9	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 oven	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 oven	det
12	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · do-support	the wife	all nice grub		the oven			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grub=Patient in oven=Location

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

So her hubby wouldn't ask questions about the missing food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 ask	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hubby	nmod:poss
3	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ask	advmod
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ask	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 food	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 food	det
10	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	would	her hubby	questions				about the missing food	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about food=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

So the cat couldn't get it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	the cat	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

So the guests would not see the good food before dinner was served

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guests	det
3	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 served	mark
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 served	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 served	aux:pass
13	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 see	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	would	the guests	the good food					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
2	serve	past · passive		dinner					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So her hubby wouldn't ask

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 ask	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hubby	nmod:poss
3	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ask	advmod
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	would	her hubby						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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