Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 63: the false br…

bare dark, the false bride said what, for like the sentence?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: false bride · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1476 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 63: the false bride takes the princess's place and is found out» 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	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dark	amod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
5	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bride	amod
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sentence	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 sentence	case
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 sentence	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sentence	det
13	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the false bride						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

rolled down the hill, spiked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 hill	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hill	det
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rolled	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spiked	punct
6	spiked	spike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hill	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll down	participle		the hill					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent
2	spike	participle		the hill not said here					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

stuck in a spiky cart, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

put in a spiky barrel, dragged till dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 barrel	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 barrel	det
4	spiky	spiky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 barrel	amod
5	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 put	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dragged	punct
7	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 barrel	acl
8	till	till	ADP	_	9 dead	case
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here			a spiky barrel			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in barrel=Destination
2	drag	participle		a spiky barrel not said here			till dead		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

chucked in the moat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moat	det
4	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	participle				the moat			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in moat=Destination

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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