Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, par…

why was the stepmum so salty about the pretty girl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stepmum · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stepmum	det
4	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 salty	advmod
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stepmum	amod
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 girl	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stepmum					why property	tree rules

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

cos the girl was way prettier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	ccomp
6	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 cos	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here					pretty property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the girl	way					tree rules

Option 2

cos the girl was rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rich	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	the girl					rich property	tree rules

Option 3

cos the girl was way prettier and the dad liked her more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obl
6	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 way	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 liked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dad	det
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 liked	nsubj
10	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 liked	obj
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 liked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	is a	past	the girl	way	tree rules
3	like	past	the dad	girl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 4

cos the king liked her more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	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 liked	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 liked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	infinitive							tree rules
2	like	past	the king	her = she					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=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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