Test 5 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

Did the huntsmen even look at the spinning-wheels?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: do, look

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsmen	det
3	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 wheels	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wheels	det
8	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wheels	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 spinning	punct
10	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	look	present	the huntsmen					at the spinning wheels	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wheel=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

no, not once, for they were well controlled and disciplined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 controlled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 once	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 no	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 controlled	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 controlled	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 controlled	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 controlled	aux:pass
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 controlled	advmod
10	controlled	control	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 disciplined	cc
12	disciplined	discipline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 controlled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	control	past · passive		they				well property	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	discipline	participle							tree rules

Option 2

no, never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 never	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yes, they stared at each one closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stared	nsubj
4	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 one	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stared	obl
8	closely	closely	ADV	_	4 stared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	they					at each one; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, not once, they were well controlled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 once	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 once	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 controlled	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 controlled	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 controlled	aux:pass
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 controlled	advmod
9	controlled	control	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 once	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	control	past · passive		they				well property	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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