Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is…

what did the princess do all day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1703 «Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is pulled under the pond, and his wife wins him back» 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	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl:unmarked
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the princess				day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

sat at her window and watched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 window	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 window	nmod:poss
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 watched	cc
6	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				her window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	watch	past							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she sat at her silver window all day and watched for a knight to come up the mountain

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 window	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 window	nmod:poss
5	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 window	amod
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 watched	cc
10	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 knight	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 knight	det
13	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watched	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 watched	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 come	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mountain	det
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she		her silver window	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	watch	past	she not said here				for a knight	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for knight=Theme
3	come up	to-infinitive	she not said here	the mountain				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme

Option 3

she waited at the window, hoping that a brave knight would climb the mountain

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hoping	punct
7	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 waited	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 climb	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 knight	det
10	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knight	amod
11	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climb	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 climb	aux
13	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hoping	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountain	det
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	past	she		the window	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location
2	hope	gerund	she not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	climb	would	a brave knight	the mountain		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme

Option 4

she combed her hair and sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 combed	nsubj
2	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 combed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sang	cc
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 combed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	past	she	her hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past	she not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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