Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daugh…

mate, what does the mum say when she hears about the last daughter going out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, last daughter · What happens: say, hear, go out · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1615 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daughter feeds the beasts and breaks the witch's spell» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mum	det
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 hears	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hears	nsubj
10	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 daughter	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 daughter	amod
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hears	obl
15	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 daughter	acl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 going	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the mum	mate vocative	tree rules
2	hear	present	mum	about the last daughter	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about daughter=Stimulus
3	go out	gerund	the last daughter not said here		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Must I lose my dearest child too, my last one?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 child	nmod:poss
5	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 lose	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 one	nmod:poss
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	must	I	my dearest child					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Must I lose my dearest child too?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 child	nmod:poss
5	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 lose	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	must	I	my dearest child					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality

Option 3

Must I lose my last child?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 child	nmod:poss
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	must	I	my last child					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality

Option 4

Will my youngest come back soon?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 come	nmod:poss
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 come	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	future	youngest					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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