Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with…

Did loads of princes try to get in before him, or just, like, one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: loads · What happens: try, get in · To what, where: one

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 120 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with the whole palace until a prince's kiss wakes her» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loads	aux
2	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 try	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 princes	case
4	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loads	nmod
5	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 one	cc
13	just	just	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
15	like	like	INTJ	_	17 one	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 try	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	loads of princes	one					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get in not said to happen	to-infinitive	loads of princes not said here				before him = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Loads, and they all got stuck and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 they	det
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 died	cc
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Loads					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	die	past	Loads not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Loads, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Loads of them, all got stuck and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Loads	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 died	cc
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Loads of them					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	die	past	Loads of them not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

A few, and they all died there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 few	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 died	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 died	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 died	advmod
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	a few			there			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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