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

Bro, what did the maid say would happen if the princess grassed on her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: maid, Bro, princess · What happens: say, happen, grass · To what, where: Bro · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happen	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maid	det
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	acl:relcl
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 grassed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grassed	nsubj
13	grassed	grass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grassed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the maid	Bro		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	happen	would	Bro			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grass a condition, not said to happen	past	the princess		on maid	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she'd kill her, no joke

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 kill	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	aux
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kill	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kill	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would	she	her = she					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

she'd beat her up, no joke

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 beat	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 beat	aux
3	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beat	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 beat	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joke	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	would	she	her = she					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme

Option 3

she'd tell, no joke

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 tell	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	she	no joke					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient

Option 4

she'd sack her

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 sack	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sack	aux
3	sack	sack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sack	would	she	her = she					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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