Test 8 · ★ · Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 1: the youth ends his trial,…

why was the girl bawling in that straw room?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, bawl · To what, where: straw room

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1436 «Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 1: the youth ends his trial, and the miller's daughter must spin gold for the King» 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 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
5	bawling	bawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 girl	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 room	det
8	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bawling	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl					why property	tree rules
2	bawl speech: other	gerund	the girl not said here			that straw room			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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

her dad had locked her in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 locked	aux
4	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 locked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 locked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock in	past · perfect	her dad	her = she					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she had zero clue how to spin gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 clue	nummod
4	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 spin	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spin	mark
7	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	zero clue					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient
2	spin	to-infinitive	she not said here	gold					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 4

the King wanted her to spin all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spin	mark
6	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spin	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the King	her = she					tree rules
2	spin not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here				night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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