Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ…
Why did the miller's daughter get kicked out at dawn?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: kick out · To what, where: daughter
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» 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 | 8 kicked | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kicked | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 miller | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kicked | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kicked | aux:pass |
| 8 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 kicked | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dawn | case |
| 11 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kicked | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 kicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick out | past · passive · do-support | the miller's daughter | dawn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
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
Cos the voice clocked she was a miller's daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 clocked | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clocked | nsubj |
| 4 | clocked | clock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 daughter | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 miller | det |
| 8 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 miller | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clocked | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clock | past | the voice | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | voice | a miller's daughter | tree rules |
Option 2
Cos the voice wanted a toad instead, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 wanted | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 toad | det |
| 6 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 wanted | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 instead | punct |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the voice | a toad | instead property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toad=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Cos the voice wanted her to scrape faster, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 wanted | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 scrape | mark |
| 7 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 scrape | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the voice | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scrape not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | fast property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Cos the voice wanted a horn blown, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 voice | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obl |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horn | det |
| 6 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 horn | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 blown | punct |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | a horn | cos the voice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | participle | a horn not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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