Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin…

Sus, did the King try to keep her hands or let her go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: do, keep, let, go · To what, where: King try, hands, Sus

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 try	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 try	compound
6	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 keep	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Sus	the King try	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Eventuality
2	keep	to-infinitive	Sus not said here	Sus's hands	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	let	infinitive	Sus not said here	Sus	tree rules
4	go	infinitive	Sus not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

He tried to drag her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 drag	mark
4	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drag	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 drag	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drag away not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	her = she				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

He let her go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	He	her = she					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He let her go and bowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bowed	cc
6	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 let	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	past	He	her = she	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	her = she not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bow	participle	He not said here		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted to keep her hands in his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 his	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	her hands					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hand=Theme his=Attribute

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