Test 14 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

Why was the queen so jealous, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen · What happens: be

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 jealous	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jealous	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 jealous	advmod
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jealous	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 jealous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the queen					mate vocative; jealous property	tree rules

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

Her maid said Snowdrop was prettier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 maid	nmod:poss
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prettier	cop
6	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 Snowdrop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Her maid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Her maid not said here					pretty property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her glass said Snowdrop was fairer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 glass	nmod:poss
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fairer	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fairer	cop
6	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Her glass						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Snowdrop					fair property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Snowdrop was younger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 younger	cop
3	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Snowdrop	flat

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

Option 4

She was angry

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 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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