Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampi…

why is the tower in the middle of the forest, lol?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tower, middle

This is test 9 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tower	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tower	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tower	det
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tower	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 middle	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tower	punct
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 tower	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the tower		the middle of the forest			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

so nobody could find her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 find	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	could	nobody	her = she					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

so nobody could get in, unless they knew the hair trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trick	det
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	compound
12	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	could	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past	they	the hair trick					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus

Option 3

to keep people out, unless they knew the trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 knew	advcl
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 keep	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 knew	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trick	det
10	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep out	to-infinitive	people not said here	people					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	know	past	people	the trick					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

so no one could reach her without the trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 reach	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reach	obj
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 trick	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trick	det
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	could	no one	her = she				without the trick	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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