Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

Wha, why did the girl say no to marrying the shepherd?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: say, marry · To what, where: no, shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 754 «Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lovers, Roland forgets, and Snowdrop is sent into the wood» 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	Wha	Wha	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wha	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 say	obj
9	to	to	SCONJ	_	10 marrying	mark
10	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 say	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shepherd	det
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marrying	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the girl	no				Wha vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	marry	gerund	the girl not said here	the shepherd					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient

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

Because she was still loyal to Roland and believed he would come back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 loyal	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loyal	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loyal	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 loyal	advmod
5	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Roland	case
7	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 loyal	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 believed	cc
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loyal	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 believed	ccomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loyal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	Roland	still	loyal property	tree rules
2	believe	past	she not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come back	would	Roland				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She was loyal to Roland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loyal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loyal	cop
3	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Roland	case
5	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loyal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		Roland			loyal property	tree rules

Option 3

She was loyal to Roland and would wait for him forever in the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loyal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loyal	cop
3	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Roland	case
5	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loyal	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wait	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	aux
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loyal	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wait	obl
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 wait	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 woods	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woods	det
14	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		Roland			loyal property	tree rules
2	wait	would	She not said here			the woods		for Roland; forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She loved another man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	She	another man					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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