Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

Who saved her in the end, the Dwarfs or the Huntsman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: save · To what, where: her, end

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Dwarfs	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dwarfs	det
9	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 end	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 Huntsman	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Huntsman	det
12	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Dwarfs	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past		her = she			in the end the Dwarfs or the Huntsman		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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 Dwarfs, but only after the Queen had fled to the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dwarfs	det
2	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fled	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 fled	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	10 fled	advmod
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 fled	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fled	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fled	aux
10	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Dwarfs	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past · perfect	the Queen	the Dwarfs not said here				to the castle	tree rules

Option 2

The Huntsman, who came back with the boar's lungs and cut her free

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Huntsman	det
2	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Huntsman	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 lungs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boar	det
9	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lungs	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 boar	case
11	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cut	cc
13	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 free	nmod:poss
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the Huntsman					with the boar's lungs	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	past	the Huntsman not said here	Huntsman's free					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset free=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Dwarfs, with the scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dwarfs	det
2	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scissors	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 scissors	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scissors	det
6	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Dwarfs	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The Huntsman, with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Huntsman	det
2	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knife	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 knife	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Huntsman	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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