Test 6 · ★ · Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, part 61: the dwarf's beard…

did Snow-white cut his beard with a knife?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: white · What happens: cut · To what, where: beard

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1474 «Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, part 61: the dwarf's beard is caught in a split tree» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
2	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Snow	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beard	nmod:poss
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 knife	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 knife	det
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · do-support	white	his beard				with a knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient with knife=Instrument

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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, with her scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 scissors	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 scissors	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 scissors	nmod:poss
5	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

nah, she used a sharp pair of shears her mother had brought from the market

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pair	det
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pair	amod
7	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 shears	case
9	shears	shear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pair	nmod
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 shears	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 market	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 market	det
16	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	she	a sharp pair of shears					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
2	bring	past · perfect · passive	shears not said here	her mother		the market			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from market=Initial_Location

Option 3

yeah, with a big blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blade	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blade	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 blade	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blade	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blade	amod
6	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she used a sharp knife from the kitchen to cut it off quickly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knife	amod
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knife	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cut	mark
12	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cut	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	she	a sharp knife		the kitchen			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
2	cut off	to-infinitive	she not said here	knife				quickly property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality

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