Test 9 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

Dead rude, what did she say when the crone asked her to comb her hair?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, crone · What happens: say, ask, comb · To what, where: her, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rude	amod
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crone	det
10	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 comb	mark
14	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hair	nmod:poss
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comb	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	the crone		her = she	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	comb not said to happen	to-infinitive	the crone not said here	crone's hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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

I won't comb it, old hag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 comb	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 comb	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 comb	advmod
4	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comb	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hag	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hag	amod
8	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not comb	future	I	it				old hag obl	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Go comb it yourself, then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	xcomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comb	obj
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 comb	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	comb	infinitive	you not said here	it				yourself obl	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Comb your hair, indeed!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Comb	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 indeed	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	1 Comb	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Comb	punct

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

Option 4

I have better things to do than comb your hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 things	acl
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 comb	mark
8	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	advcl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hair	nmod:poss
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	I	better things	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	better things not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	comb	infinitive	I not said here	your hair	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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