Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…

Mate, did the maid nick the lock, or did it just float off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: maid · What happens: nick, float off · To what, where: lock

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nick	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nick	nsubj
6	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lock	det
8	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nick	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 float	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 float	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 float	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 float	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 float	advmod
14	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nick	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 float	compound:prt
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · do-support	the maid	the lock				Mate vocative	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
2	float off	past · do-support	maid						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

it floated off the bride into the brook, totally random, no one nicked it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 bride	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 brook	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brook	det
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 random	punct
10	totally	totally	ADV	_	11 random	advmod
11	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 floated	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nicked	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nicked	nsubj
15	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 floated	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	it			the brook		off the bride	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme off bride=Source into brook=Trajectory
2	nick	past	no one	brook					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it floated off the bride, random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 bride	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 random	punct
7	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bride	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	it					off the bride and random	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off bride=Trajectory

Option 3

the maid nicked the lock and tossed it into the water, real sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maid	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lock	det
5	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tossed	cc
7	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nicked	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tossed	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tossed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sus	punct
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sus	amod
14	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the maid	the lock					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
2	toss	past	the maid not said here	lock		the water and real sus			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Patient into water=Recipient

Option 4

it floated off the horse, sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 floated	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	it					off the horse	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off horse=Trajectory

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