Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and…

no way the sisters thought she was stealing food, when she was just doing magic

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters, she · What happens: think, steal, do · To what, where: way, magic

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1921 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, part 58: the sisters spy on the goat's magic table, and the mother kills the goat» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stealing	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 way	acl:relcl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stealing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stealing	aux
8	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stealing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 doing	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 doing	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 doing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 doing	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 doing	advmod
15	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stealing	conj
16	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the sisters	no way not said here	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot way=Theme
2	steal	past · progressive	she	no way	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme
3	do	past · progressive	she	magic	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Eventuality

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

They thought she had found a snack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snack	det
7	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	past · perfect	she	a snack					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They thought she found other food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	past	she	other food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 3

They thought she was lazy now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 thought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They				now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					lazy property	tree rules

Option 4

They believed she had been hiding bread under her apron and eating it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hiding	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hiding	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 hiding	aux
6	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 believed	ccomp
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hiding	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 apron	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 apron	nmod:poss
10	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hiding	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eating	cc
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hiding	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	believe	past	They			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hide	past · perfect · progressive	she	bread	her apron	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bread=Patient under apron=Location
3	eat	gerund	she not said here	bread		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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