Test 13 · ★ · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t…

Why did the old lady want the carriage all shut up, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: want, shut up · To what, where: carriage

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» 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	6 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shut	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 carriage	det
8	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 shut	advmod
10	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 shut	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shut	vocative
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the old lady	the carriage					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot carriage=Theme
2	shut up	participle						mate vocative; all property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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

She is shy

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	3 shy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shy	cop
3	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					shy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She hides her old face

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 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 face	amod
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	She	her old face					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No light on her face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	nmod

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

Option 4

Modesty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Modesty	modesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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