Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, The True Bride: the false bride is unmasked and the…

is the brother actually cooked in the snake pit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, cook · To what, where: brother

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1577 «Grimm, The True Bride: the false bride is unmasked and the true bride wins her king» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brother	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	nsubj:pass
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 cooked	advmod
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 pit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pit	det
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pit	compound
9	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cooked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the brother					tree rules
2	cook	participle · passive		the brother				in the snake pit; actually property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in pit=Instrument

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

yep, but the dog pulled him out before the snakes could bite him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pulled	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 pulled	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulled	nsubj
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pulled	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 pulled	compound:prt
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 bite	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snakes	det
11	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bite	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bite	aux
13	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pulled	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past	the dog	him = he					tree rules
2	bite	could	the snakes	dog					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

nah, the snakes got scared and left him alone the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snakes	det
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the snakes					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	leave	past	the snakes not said here	him = he			time	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

nah, he was pulled out early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulled	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	aux:pass
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 pulled	compound:prt
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past · passive		he				early property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, the snakes never touched him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 touched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snakes	det
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 touched	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 touched	advmod
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	past	the snakes	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

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