Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

What did the poor girl do when the Prince looked in, like, shy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, look in · To what, where: poor girl

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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	5 girl	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	aux
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 looked	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 looked	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shy	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 shy	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
15	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looked	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the poor girl					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality
2	look in	present · do-support	the Prince						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

smiled and span on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 span	cc
3	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smiled	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	1 smiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

blushed deeply and kept span on at her wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blushed	blush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	1 blushed	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 blushed	conj
5	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 wheel	case
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 wheel	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wheel	nmod:poss
9	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blush	participle						deeply property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	participle		span		her wheel			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent span=Theme on wheel=Location

Option 3

blushed and span on without once looking up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blushed	blush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 span	cc
3	span	span	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 blushed	conj
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 span	advmod
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 looking	mark
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 looking	advmod
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 span	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 looking	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	blush	participle		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	span	present		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	look up	gerund	once property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

blushed and span on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blushed	blush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 span	cc
3	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blushed	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	1 blushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blush	participle							vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1925-pg7277-part62/t10/