Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, par…

how did the stepmum try to finish her off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmum · What happens: try, finish off · To what, where: stepmum

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 try	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stepmum	det
4	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 try	nsubj
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 finish	mark
7	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 finish	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 finish	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	the stepmum						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	finish off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the stepmum not said here	stepmum					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality

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

told her to fish in the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 told	iobj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 told	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			her = she	the lake		to fish	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to fish=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

sent her to get a net through ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sent	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 net	det
6	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 ice	case
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		her = she					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive		a net		ice			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer net=Stimulus

Option 3

made her walk into the frozen forest alone to find the net

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walk	nsubj
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
6	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 forest	amod
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obl
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 net	det
12	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	her = she		into the frozen forest result; alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result
2	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	find	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	the net		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Topic

Option 4

sent her to the frozen lake to drown herself at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 lake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lake	amod
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drown	mark
8	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sent	advcl
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 drown	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	send	past	her = she	the frozen lake		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to lake=Destination
2	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	drown	to-infinitive	herself = she		night	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient

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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