Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins…

Did the old lady let Joringel keep Jorinde, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady, Joringel · What happens: let, keep · To what, where: Jorinde

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1923 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins back Jorinde, and the King's daughter flees in a fur cloak to become a kitchen maid» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Joringel	Joringel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	Jorinde	Jorinde	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the old lady						tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	Joringel	Jorinde					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jorinde=Theme

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

nah, she said he could never have her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have	could	he	her = she					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she said he could never have her and sent him away crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 sent	advmod
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have	could	he	her = she		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	send away	past	she not said here	him = he	away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	she not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yes, she let him keep her now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	she	him = he					tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	him = he not said here	her = she			now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

no, she kept Jorinde for herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Jorinde	Jorinde	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 herself	case
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	Jorinde				for Jorinde	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jorinde=Theme

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