Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: t…

Hang on, what's the eldest sister doing about the youngest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, eldest sister · What happens: hang on, be, do · To what, where: eldest sister

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 733 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: the soldier wins a princess, and the fisherman's wife starts asking for more» 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sister	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 sister	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sister	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 sister	amod
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sister	acl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 youngest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youngest	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the eldest sister		tree rules
3	do	gerund	the eldest sister not said here		about the youngest	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 · ✓ the right answer

Shushing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shushing	shush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shush	gerund		her = she					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

Hitting her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hitting	obj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Shushing her and telling her to keep quiet about the dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shushing	shush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shushing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 telling	cc
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Shushing	conj
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 telling	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 telling	xcomp
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 dancing	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dancing	det
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	shush	gerund	her = she			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive			about the dancing; quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about dancing=Location

Option 4

Hugging her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hugging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	gerund		her = she					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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