Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

So the fairy couldn't get near him, yeah, cos of the flower?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy · What happens: not get · To what, where: cos

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 728 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a maiden into a nightingale, and her shepherd lover wins her back» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairy	det
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 get	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cos	punct
12	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 flower	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flower	det
15	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cos	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	the fairy	cos of the flower				near him = he	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

Nah, the flower drew her in close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 drew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	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 drew	iobj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 close	case
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the flower		her = she	close			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in close=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she came close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	she					close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, the flower kept her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	past	the flower	her = she				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the flower kept her two yards off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 yards	nummod
8	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 off	obl:unmarked
9	off	off	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the flower	her = she				off property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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