Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampi…

wait, the witch took the baby just like that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, witch · What happens: wait, take · To what, where: baby

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1567 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampion, a stolen baby, and a girl locked in a tower» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 that	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 took	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the witch	the baby					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument baby=Theme that=Destination

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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she just took it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	she	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was the price for the leaves, that's so messed up

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 price	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 price	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 price	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 price	det
6	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leaves	det
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 price	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 messed	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 messed	nsubj:pass
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 messed	aux
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 messed	advmod
14	messed	mess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 price	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 messed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	the price				for the leaves	tree rules
2	mess up	present · passive		that					tree rules

Option 3

yeah, the baby was the price, so sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 price	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 price	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 price	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 price	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 price	det
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 sad	advmod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 price	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the baby	the price					tree rules
2	be		the baby not said here						tree rules

Option 4

yep, the witch got the kid as payment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 payment	case
9	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the witch	the kid				as payment	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus as payment=Attribute

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