Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, par…
so is the girl now getting a happy ending?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, get · To what, where: girl, happy ending
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 girl | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 girl | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 getting | nsubj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 getting | advmod |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ending | det |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ending | amod |
| 9 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 getting | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 getting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | the girl | a happy ending | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ending=Stimulus |
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
for sure, she'll be queen soon and the stepsister gets punished
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 sure | case |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 queen | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 queen | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 queen | cop |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 queen | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 punished | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stepsister | det |
| 11 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 punished | aux:pass |
| 13 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 queen | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | she | queen | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | punish | present · passive | the stepsister | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
nope, she's stuck with her mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuck | cop |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mum | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | with her mum; stuck property | tree rules |
Option 3
nah, she's going back to the mess later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 going | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mess | det |
| 9 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 going | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present · progressive | she | to the mess result; late property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mess=Result |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
looks like it, she's leaving that mess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 looks | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaving | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leaving | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaving | aux |
| 7 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 looks | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 mess | det |
| 9 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | like it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | leave | present · progressive | she | that mess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=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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