Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, par…

how did the boot thing prove the marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boot thing · What happens: prove · To what, where: marriage

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 127 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, part 1: a stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the snow for strawberries» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 prove	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prove	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prove	nsubj
6	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 marriage	det
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prove	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 prove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past · do-support	the boot thing	the marriage					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme

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 water stayed in the boot, so the widow was truly legit and fine

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 boot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boot	det
6	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 legit	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 legit	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 widow	det
10	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 legit	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 legit	cop
12	truly	truly	ADV	_	13 legit	advmod
13	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stayed	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fine	cc
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 legit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the water	the boot		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boot=Location
2	is	past	the widow		legit, truly property	tree rules
3	be		the widow not said here			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the water stayed in, so it was legit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 legit	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 legit	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 legit	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 legit	cop
9	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stayed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay in	past	the water						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	water					legit property	tree rules

Option 3

the water stayed in, so the wedding was legit and the father proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 legit	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 legit	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 legit	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 legit	cop
10	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stayed	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 proud	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 father	det
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proud	nsubj
14	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay in	past	the water		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the wedding	legit property	tree rules
3	be		the father		tree rules

Option 4

the boot passed, so it's real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boot	det
2	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 real	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 real	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 real	cop
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 passed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the boot						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	boot					real property	tree rules

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