Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin…

Init, why couldn't she take the dress off after the third feast?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Init · What happens: not take off · To what, where: dress

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1924 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the ring, the reel and the wedding» 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	Init	Init	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 take	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Init	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 take	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 take	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dress	det
9	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 take	compound:prt
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 feast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feast	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 feast	amod
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take off	could	Init	the dress			after the third feast	Init vocative	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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

She had lost the golden key

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	3 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 key	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 key	amod
6	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	She	the golden key					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Eventuality

Option 2

The dress was stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dress	det
2	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	cop
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dress					stuck property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She stayed past the half-hour

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADP	_	7 hour	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hour	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 hour	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 half	punct
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	She				hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The King had locked the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 locked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 locked	aux
4	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · perfect	the King	the door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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