Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

Why did the Queen go all dodgy as a peddler wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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	7 dodgy	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dodgy	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dodgy	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dodgy	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 dodgy	advmod
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 wife	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wife	det
10	peddler	peddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	compound
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dodgy	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dodgy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · do-support	the Queen					as a peddler wife; all, dodgy property	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 · ← Mova's choice

She wanted to sneak in and sell some stuff, then wreck the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sneak	mark
4	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 sneak	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sell	cc
7	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 stuff	det
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wreck	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 wreck	advmod
12	wreck	wreck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wreck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	want	past	She			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sneak in not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sell	present	She not said here	some stuff		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme
4	wreck	infinitive		the house	then	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient

Option 2

To get into the dwarfs' house

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	into	into	ADP	_	7 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarfs	det
5	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 house	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 dwarfs	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive				the dwarfs's house			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into house=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She wanted to sneak in and do Snowdrop in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sneak	mark
4	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 sneak	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sneak	conj
8	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	She		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sneak in not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	infinitive	She not said here	Snowdrop	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Eventuality

Option 4

She wanted to sneak in through the window and do Snowdrop in with lace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sneak	mark
4	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 sneak	compound:prt
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sneak	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 do	cc
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sneak	conj
11	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 lace	case
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 lace	case
14	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	She			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sneak in not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here		the window	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory
3	do	infinitive	She not said here	Snowdrop	lace	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Eventuality

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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