Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister save…

ngl why couldn't she just talk to the huntsmen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: not talk

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 121 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers from the fire, and Rapunzel begins» 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	ngl	ngl	X	Foreign=Yes	7 talk	dep
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 talk	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 talk	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talk	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 huntsmen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 huntsmen	det
10	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	could	she					to the huntsmen	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to huntsman=Co-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

because her step-mom forbade it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 forbade	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mom	nmod:poss
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mom	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 step	punct
5	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forbade	nsubj
6	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forbade	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past	her step mom	it					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme

Option 2

cause the spell made her mute for the next six years no matter what she did

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spell	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mute	nmod:poss
6	mute	mute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 years	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 matter	det
13	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl:unmarked
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 did	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	make	past	the cause spell	spell's mute	year	no matter obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mute=Product
3	do	past	spell				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause she had to stay quiet for six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	cause						tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	cause not said here				year	quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

cause she'd made a vow to stay silent and sew shirts for six whole years

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vow	det
6	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
9	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sew	cc
11	sew	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
12	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sew	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 years	amod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive	cause			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary vow=Product
2	stay	to-infinitive			silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sew	present	shirts	year		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product

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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