Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

How did the Princess feel when the bride news came, like, gutted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess, bride news · What happens: feel, come, gut

This is test 7 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 news	det
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 news	compound
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	5 feel	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gutted	punct
14	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 feel	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the Princess	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	past	the bride news	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gut	participle		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

as if cold iron struck her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 struck	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 struck	mark
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 iron	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	nsubj
5	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	cold iron	her = she					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument

Option 2

as though the whole palace had fallen on her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	7 fallen	advmod
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 fallen	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palace	amod
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fallen	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	aux
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fallen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the whole palace			palace's head			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location

Option 3

as if a knife hit her heart and cut her in two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 hit	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hit	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 two	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a knife	her heart					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme
2	cut	past	a knife not said here	her = she		two			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

as if a knife hit her heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 hit	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hit	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a knife	her heart					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme

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