Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood:…

Yo, what was the Queen's stepsister's big mistake?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big mistake

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	11 mistake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 mistake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mistake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stepsister	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Queen	case
8	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mistake	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 stepsister	case
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mistake	amod
11	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 mistake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Queen's stepsister's big mistake					tree rules

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

Being greedy with the gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 greedy	cop
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 coins	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coins	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	compound
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 greedy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						with the gold coins; greedy property	tree rules

Option 2

Being cruel to her own sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cruel	cop
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 sister	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cruel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						to her own sister; cruel property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Being rude and greedy to the little men who had given her a kind chance

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rude	cop
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 given	advcl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 greedy	cc
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rude	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 men	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 given	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 given	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 given	aux
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 given	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 chance	det
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chance	amod
15	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			rude property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	give	past · perfect	a kind chance	her = she	to the little men	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chance=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Being rude and greedy to the little men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rude	cop
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 greedy	cc
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rude	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 men	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						to the little men; rude property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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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