Test 14 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

Okay but what did the Princess say about the creature?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 creature	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creature	det
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Princess					about the creature	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

she'd never go with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	would	she					with it	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she'd marry it only if it came to the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marry	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 marry	aux
3	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marry	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 marry	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 castle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	would	she	it					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	it			the castle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location

Option 3

she'd not follow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 follow	advmod
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not follow	would	she	it					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

she'd never touch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	would	she	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

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.

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