Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…

Wait, who's the miller's girl the king loves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: wait, be, love · To what, where: girl

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girl	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 girl	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 girl	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 miller	det
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 miller	case
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loves	nsubj
11	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 girl	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the miller's girl	tree rules
3	love	present	the king	the miller's girl not said here	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice

The girl who spins gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 spins	nsubj
4	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 girl	acl:relcl
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spins	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	the girl	gold					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The one spinning straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	acl
4	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spinning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund	the one not said here	straw					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Theme

Option 3

The baker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baker	det
2	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A spinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spinner	det
2	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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