Test 6 · ★ · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t…

What was the shoemaker's sneaky plan in the sack switch?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sneaky plan, shoemaker · What happens: be, plan · To what, where: sack switch

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoemaker	det
4	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 shoemaker	case
6	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 switch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 switch	det
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 switch	compound
11	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the shoemaker's sneaky plan in the sack switch						tree rules
2	plan		the shoemaker			the sack switch			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

Bribe the guards with gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bribe	bribe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bribe	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bribe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	imperative	you not said here	the guards				with gold	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient

Option 2

Trick the robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	imperative	you not said here	the robbers					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Patient

Option 3

Pretend to be the captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	5 captain	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 captain	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 captain	det
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pretend	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	you not said here	the captain					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Swap places with the swineherd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swap	swap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 places	compound
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 swineherd	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swineherd	det
5	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 places	nmod

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

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