Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…
Innit, why did Curdken go mad in the meadow?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: go
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 go | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 meadow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meadow | det |
| 10 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mad | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | Innit | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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
his horse got loose and bolted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bolted | cc |
| 6 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | his horse | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bolt | participle | his horse not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
his hat blew off and he had to run
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 blew | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 run | mark |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow off | past | his hat | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
his hat fell in the brook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 brook | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brook | det |
| 6 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | his hat | the brook | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in brook=Location |
Option 4
his hat blew off and he had to run after it across the whole meadow
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 blew | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 run | mark |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 run | obl |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 meadow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meadow | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meadow | amod |
| 15 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 run | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow off | past | his hat | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | he not said here | the whole meadow | after hat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across meadow=Trajectory |
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