Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snow-White: the queen's poisoned appl…

was the prince a total creep for wanting her coffin?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: total creep · What happens: be, want · To what, where: prince, coffin

This is test 9 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prince	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creep	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 creep	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creep	amod
6	creep	creep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 wanting	mark
8	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 creep	acl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 coffin	nmod:poss
10	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanting	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 creep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the prince					tree rules
2	want	gerund	a total creep not said here	her coffin					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot coffin=Theme

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

Nah, he just asked nicely once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he					nicely, once property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he begged and offered money first, and only then did he take the coffin home

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 offered	cc
6	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offered	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 offered	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 then	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 take	advmod
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 coffin	det
17	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	15 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	offer	past	he not said here	money		first property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	take	past · do-support	he	the coffin	then	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he stole her from the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stole	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stole	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	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 stole	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he	her = she		the hill			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from hill=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he begged and offered money first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 offered	cc
6	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offered	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 offered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	offer	past	he not said here	money				first property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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