Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…
Yo, was she scared to get her cup out, or just being extra?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be, get out · To what, where: cup
This is test 2 · ★ 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. 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 5 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scared | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cup | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 get | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 extra | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 extra | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 extra | advmod |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 extra | cop |
| 15 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scared | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get out | to-infinitive | she not said here | her cup | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | she not said here | extra property | tree rules |
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 was scared of the water
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 | 3 scared | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | cop |
| 3 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | of the water; scared property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
she was dead scared of the cup
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 | 4 scared | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | cop |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scared | amod |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cup | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cup | det |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | of the cup; scared property | tree rules |
Option 3
she was totally chill
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 | 4 chill | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chill | cop |
| 3 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 4 chill | advmod |
| 4 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | chill, totally property | tree rules |
Option 4
she was just being lazy
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 | 5 lazy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lazy | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 lazy | advmod |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lazy | cop |
| 5 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | lazy property | tree rules |
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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