Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

Sus, what did the wife say the husband did?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: say, do · To what, where: Sus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sus	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 husband	det
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the wife	Sus					tree rules
2	do	past	the husband						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

hit the child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	the child					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Co-Theme

Option 2

cursed the child and threw it into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 threw	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cursed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 threw	cc
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 threw	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle		the child					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	throw	past		child				into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result

Option 3

praised the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 praised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past		the boy					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cursed the child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cursed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle		the child					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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