Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the…

the glass said the queen was fairest, then snow white got fairer, sus right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: glass, snow white · What happens: say, be, get, sus · To what, where: queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 105 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the crown with a carpet, a ring and a bride; then Snow-White begins» 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 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fairest	cop
7	fairest	fair	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 queen	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 got	advmod
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	compound
11	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
13	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 got	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sus	punct
15	sus	sus	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 got	xcomp
16	right	right	ADV	_	15 sus	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the glass	the queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent queen=Topic
2	is	past				fair property	tree rules
3	get	past	snow white		then	fair property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	sus	infinitive	snow white not said here			right property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the glass said lovelier far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glass	det
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 said	xcomp
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the glass					far, lovely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, the mirror said fairer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mirror	det
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 said	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mirror					fair property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, the glass kept saying the queen was fairest every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glass	det
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fairest	cop
10	fairest	fair	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 saying	ccomp
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fairest	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the glass				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the glass not said here	the queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent queen=Topic
3	is	past			day	fair property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, the mirror said she was fairest of all in the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mirror	det
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fairest	acl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fairest	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fairest	cop
8	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fairest	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mirror						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					of all; fair property	tree rules

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