Test 11 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…
What did the poor girl sing to the spindle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: poor girl sing
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | 6 sing | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sing | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | compound |
| 6 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 spindle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spindle | det |
| 9 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the poor girl sing | to the spindle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=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
Spindle, dance and bring my love near
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dance | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spindle | punct |
| 3 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bring | cc |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dance | conj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 love | nmod:poss |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 8 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 bring | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | infinitive | Spindle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | Spindle not said here | my love | near property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent love=Theme | |||
| 3 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Spindle, go and see if my love will come
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spindle | punct |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | Spindle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Spindle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | future | my love | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Spindle, go and see if my true love will come for me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spindle | punct |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | amod |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | Spindle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Spindle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | future | my true love | for me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Spindle, go and see if my love will come to me here
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spindle | punct |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | obl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | Spindle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Spindle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | future | my love | me | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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