Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…

Sis, what was the princess doing with her hair that made Curdken stare?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sis, princess, hair, Curdken · What happens: be, do, make, stare · To what, where: princess

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 princess	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 princess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sis	appos
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 princess	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hair	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hair	nmod:poss
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hair	acl:relcl
13	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stare	nsubj
14	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sis	the princess		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the princess not said here		with princess's hair	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	princess's hair			tree rules
4	stare	infinitive	Curdken			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

combing out her silver locks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	combing	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 locks	csubj
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 combing	compound:prt
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 silver	nmod:poss
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 combing	obj
5	locks	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb out	gerund		her silver					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Patient
2	lock	present	combing						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

braiding gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	braiding	braid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 braiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	braid	gerund		gold					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient

Option 3

washing her silver hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hair	compound
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 washing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		her silver hair					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

combing her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 combing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	gerund		her hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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