Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans, part 1: a lost king's…

Why'd the king hide his kids in the wood?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: hide · To what, where: kids, wood

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hide	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hide	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	nsubj
5	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kids	nmod:poss
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hide	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	would	the king	king's kids		the wood			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kid=Patient in wood=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

He was scared the stepmom would be mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stepmom	det
5	stepmom	stepmom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 mean	cop
8	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scared	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	is	would	the stepmom					mean property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted them safe from the witch's spells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 spells	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spells	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 witch	case
9	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	them = they				safe property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	spell		the witch						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He wanted quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He					quiet property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

He was worried the wolves would eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worried	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worried	cop
3	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolves	det
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 worried	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					worried property	tree rules
2	eat	would	the wolves	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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