Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

Ngl, how'd the prince get rid of the maid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: get

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	conj
8	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 maid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maid	det
11	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rid	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the prince					rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

he threw her out the window and off the castle wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wall	cc
8	off	off	ADP	_	11 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wall	compound
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past	he	the window	her = she				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination window=Theme

Option 2

he kicked her out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 kicked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick out	past	he	her = she					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he whipped her off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whipped	nsubj
2	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whipped	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 whipped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip off	past	he	her = she					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent she=Material

Option 4

he dragged her out of the room by her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 hair	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hair	nmod:poss
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	her = she		the room		by her hair	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out room=Initial_Location

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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