Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood:…

Be honest, why did the stepmother pick the yarn job for the girl?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stepmother · What happens: be, pick · To what, where: yarn job

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1559 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood: a kind girl and a rude girl get very different gifts» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pick	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 pick	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pick	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepmother	det
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	nsubj
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 job	det
10	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 job	compound
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 girl	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					honest property	tree rules
2	pick	past · do-support	the stepmother	the yarn job				for the girl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent job=Theme for girl=Beneficiary

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

So she would fall into the cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	she					into the cold water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To make her drown in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		her = she					tree rules
2	drown	infinitive	her = she not said here			the river			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To get rid of her in the cold river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rid	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 river	amod
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive				the cold river		rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

To keep her busy with the yarn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 busy	nmod:poss
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 yarn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 yarn	det
7	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 busy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive						busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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