Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…
Wagwan, who was the dodgy spy hiding in the bush?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wagwan, dodgy spy · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: dodgy spy, bush
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Wagwan | Wagwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spy | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 spy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spy | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spy | det |
| 6 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spy | amod |
| 7 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wagwan | appos |
| 8 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 spy | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bush | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bush | det |
| 11 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hiding | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wagwan | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Wagwan | the dodgy spy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | the dodgy spy not said here | the bush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location |
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 royal chamberlain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chamberlain | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chamberlain | amod |
| 3 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the old king himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 king | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the goose-boy Curdken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 2 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 goose | punct |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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