Test 5 · ★ · Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and…

Wait, what did the Dwarfs do when Snowdrop was dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Dwarfs, Snowdrop · What happens: wait, do, be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1579 «Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and the wicked Queen's end» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dwarfs	det
6	Dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dead	advmod
9	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dead	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 do	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · do-support	the Dwarfs		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	is	past	Snowdrop	dead 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

they buried her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buried	nsubj
2	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	they	her = she					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

they wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	they						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

they hunted for the poison apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 apple	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apple	det
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apple	compound
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	they					for the poison apple	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for apple=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they hunted for the poison comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 comb	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 comb	det
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comb	compound
6	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	they					for the poison comb	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for comb=Theme

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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