Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

Did Snowdrop cop it when she got laced?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: cop, lace · To what, where: it, Snowdrop

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cop	aux
2	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cop	nsubj
3	cop	cop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cop	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 laced	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laced	nsubj:pass
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laced	aux:pass
8	laced	lace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cop	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cop	past · do-support	Snowdrop	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	lace	past · passive		Snowdrop					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she dropped down dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 dropped	compound:prt
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dropped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop down	past	she					dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she was fine, she just had a bit of a wobble and sat down

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 wobble	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wobble	det
14	wobble	wobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		fine property	tree rules
2	have	past	she	a bit of a wobble		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
3	sit down	past	she not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, she got laced right up and dropped down dead on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 laced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laced	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laced	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laced	aux:pass
5	laced	lace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	5 laced	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dropped	cc
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 laced	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 dropped	compound:prt
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dropped	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 floor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 floor	det
14	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lace	past · passive		she					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	drop down	participle				the floor		dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory

Option 4

Nah, she just fainted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fainted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fainted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 fainted	advmod
5	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past	she						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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