Test 14 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks…

Innit, what did the lazy girl fear from the apple-tree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: do · To what, where: lazy girl fear, apple tree

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 746 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks Red-Cap off the path and eats her grandmother» 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	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fear	det
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fear	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fear	compound
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
11	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 apple	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Innit	the lazy girl fear		the apple tree			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality

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

an apple falling on her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 apple	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	a apple not said here			her head			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location

Option 2

a heavy apple falling and hitting her head hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 apple	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apple	amod
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 apple	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hitting	cc
6	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 falling	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hitting	obj
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	a heavy apple not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	gerund	a heavy apple not said here	her head				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme

Option 3

a stone hitting her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stone	acl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund	a stone not said here	her head					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the whole tree falling down on her and her mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tree	acl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 falling	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 falling	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mother	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	gerund	the whole tree and her mother not said here					on her = she; down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location

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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