Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snow-White: the queen's poisoned appl…

ngl, was the comb poisoned or just pretty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be, poison · To what, where: comb

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 106 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snow-White: the queen's poisoned apple, the glass coffin and the prince's wedding» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 comb	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 comb	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 comb	det
5	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 comb	acl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 pretty	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 pretty	advmod
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 poisoned	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 comb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the comb					tree rules
2	poison	participle		the comb not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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

Just pretty, it made her cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 pretty	advmod
2	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pretty	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	her = she				pretty property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Poisoned, it was hidden in the hair and dropped her right down onto the stones

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hidden	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Poisoned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hidden	aux:pass
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hair	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hair	det
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dropped	cc
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hidden	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dropped	obj
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 down	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	10 dropped	advmod
14	onto	onto	ADP	_	16 stones	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stones	det
16	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hide	past · passive	it	the hair		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in hair=Location
3	drop	past	her = she	the stones	down property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme onto stone=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Poisoned, it dropped her right down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dropped	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Poisoned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 down	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 dropped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past	it	her = she				down property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

Poisoned, it made her laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Poisoned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	poison	participle			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	it	her = she	tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	her = she not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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