Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mother Holle and The Frog Prince, par…

Did the frog actually want her gold crown, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frog · What happens: want, crown · To what, where: frog

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 123 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mother Holle and The Frog Prince, part 26: the lazy girl gets pitch, and the frog claims his promise» 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	3 frog	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obl
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 crown	nmod:poss
7	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crown	amod
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 want	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present		the frog				actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crown=Theme
2	crown		frog						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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

Yeah, the crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 crown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crown	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crown	det
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he wanted her as a playmate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 playmate	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 playmate	det
8	playmate	playmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	her = she				as a playmate	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme as playmate=Attribute

Option 3

Nah, just her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 her	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 her	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, he only wanted her ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ring	nmod:poss
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	her ring					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ring=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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