Test 11 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal…

what did the old lady at the gate want her to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: her · What happens: do, want · To what, where: old lady, her, gate

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	obl
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 want	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the old lady		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality
2	want	present		her = she	the gate	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

comb her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 comb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	imperative	you not said here	her hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 2

comb her hair before going into the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 comb	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 comb	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	imperative	you not said here	her hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	go	gerund	you not said here			the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location

Option 3

comb her long hair and then go to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 comb	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 go	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 comb	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	imperative	you not said here	her long hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	go	infinitive	you not said here			bed	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 4

fetch water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	water					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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