Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the…

Did the bird actually grass on the sisters, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, innit · To what, where: bird

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 114 «Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the feast three times, loses a golden slipper, and the prince seeks his bride; the old king makes faithful John promise to guard his son» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 grass	advmod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grass	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grass	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the bird				grass on the sisters obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive							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

yes, the dove sang the truth from the hazel-tree to the prince at the palace window

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 hazel	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 prince	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 window	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 window	compound
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the dove	the truth	the prince	the hazel tree		at the palace window	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Topic to prince=Recipient

Option 2

no, the dove only sang a song about the sisters and the prince's golden crown

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 sang	advmod
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 sisters	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sisters	det
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 song	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crown	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crown	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 prince	case
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 crown	amod
17	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the dove	a song				about the sisters	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	crown		the prince						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

yes, the dove sang a lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lie	det
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the dove	a lie					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lie=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yes, the dove sang the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the dove	the truth					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location truth=Theme

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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