Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans, part 1: a lost king's…

So the brothers are, like, scared for her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1678 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans, part 1: a lost king's bargain with a witch, and six brothers turned into swans» 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scared	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 scared	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scared	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the brothers					for her = she; scared 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

Nah, they're brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 brave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brave	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, they're scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they warn her of the wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 warn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 warn	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warn	nsubj
4	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warn	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wolves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolves	det
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	they		her = she			of the wolves	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of wolf=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they say it's a den of robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 den	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 den	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 den	det
8	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 robbers	case
10	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 den	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a den				of robbers	tree rules

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