Test 8 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

Why'd the shepherd keep the flower, honestly?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shepherd · What happens: keep · To what, where: flower

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 keep	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flower	det
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 honestly	punct
9	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the shepherd	the flower				honestly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

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

Cos it smelled sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 smelled	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smelled	nsubj
3	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smelled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	it					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Cos it was gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 gold	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gold	cop
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					cos gold	tree rules

Option 3

Cos it was dead pretty and he wanted to keep it on his shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 dead	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shelf	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shelf	nmod:poss
14	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			dead, pretty property	tree rules
2	want	past	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it	his shelf		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shelf=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos it was dead pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 dead	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod

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

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