Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's d…

Did the miller's girl bounce back home safe, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: girl bounce

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 747 «Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's daughter escapes the robbers' house» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miller	det
3	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bounce	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 miller	case
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bounce	compound
6	bounce	bounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 home	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	1 Did	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 home	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	1 Did	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the miller's girl bounce				home property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bounce=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

Yeah, she got back to the mill by morning, and her father was waiting at the gate with tears in his eyes

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 morning	case
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mill	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waiting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 waiting	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waiting	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 waiting	aux
16	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 got	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 gate	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gate	det
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waiting	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 tears	case
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 waiting	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	she					to the mill by morning result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mill=Result
2	wait	past · progressive	her father			the gate		with tears; in father's eyes	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she got lost again and only found the mill after a whole week of searching through the dark woods

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 lost	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 found	advmod
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 week	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 week	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 week	amod
15	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 searching	case
17	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 week	nmod
18	through	through	ADP	_	21 woods	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woods	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 woods	compound
21	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 searching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lose	past · passive	she		again	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	find	past	the mill		week	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Topic
3	search	gerund		the dark woods		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Location

Option 3

Nah, she was stuck in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	cop
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			the forest		stuck property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she got to the mill by morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mill	det
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 morning	case
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she				morning	to the mill result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mill=Result

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