Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…

Which statement most accurately describes the threat made by the maid to her mistress?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: describe, make · To what, where: threat

This is exam question 4 of lesson 737 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid takes the bride's place and Curdken spies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 describes	advmod
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 threat	det
7	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 threat	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 maid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maid	det
11	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mistress	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mistress	nmod:poss
14	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 maid	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which statement	the threat				accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent threat=Theme
2	make	participle		the threat not said here				by the maid to statement's mistress	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

She threatened her life

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	2 threatened	nsubj
2	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threatened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	She	her life					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus life=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She threatened to take the princess's life if she spoke

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	2 threatened	nsubj
2	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threatened	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 life	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 princess	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 spoke	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spoke	nsubj
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	threaten	past	She		tree rules
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the princess's life	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	princess		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She threatened to cast the princess out if she told

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	2 threatened	nsubj
2	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cast	mark
4	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threatened	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 cast	compound:prt
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	threaten	past	She		tree rules
2	cast out not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the princess	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Product
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She threatened to harm the princess if she spoke

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	2 threatened	nsubj
2	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 harm	mark
4	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threatened	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harm	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 spoke	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 harm	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	threaten	past	She		tree rules
2	harm not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the princess	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer
3	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	princess		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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