Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

what did the princess yell when she got scared

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, get · To what, where: princess yell

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 yell	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yell	compound
5	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the princess yell					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Eventuality
2	get	past	she					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

That is the fisherman himself!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fisherman	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fisherman	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 fisherman	nmod:unmarked
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fisherman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the fisherman				himself = he nmod:unmarked	tree rules

Option 2

Run away!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

That is the King himself!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 himself	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 himself	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 himself	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 himself	nsubj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 himself	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	King					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"That is the Crab himself!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Crab	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Crab	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Crab	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Crab	det
5	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 Crab	nmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Crab	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Crab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the Crab				Crab nmod	tree rules

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