Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Snowdrop, part 31: the queen's three disgui…

Yo, why did the queen keep going back to her mirror, like every day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, keep, go back · To what, where: queen

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 755 «Grimm's Tales, Snowdrop, part 31: the queen's three disguises, then the poisoned apple» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 mirror	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mirror	nmod:poss
12	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl:unmarked
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the queen			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	keep	present		day		tree rules
3	go back	gerund			to her mirror result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mirror=Result

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

Cause she wanted praise, and the mirror kept telling her it was true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mirror	det
8	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
10	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 telling	iobj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 true	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 telling	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	praise			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot praise=Theme
2	keep	past	the mirror				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the mirror not said here		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	past	mirror			true property	tree rules

Option 2

Cause she was jealous, and wanted the mirror to say she was the best

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 jealous	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jealous	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mirror	det
9	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 best	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 best	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 best	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		jealous property	tree rules
2	want	past		the mirror		tree rules
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mirror not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	she		good property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cause she wanted to be the fairest, and it kept saying Snowdrop was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 fairest	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fairest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairest	det
7	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 wanted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
12	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kept	xcomp
13	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saying	obj
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	she			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here		fair property	tree rules
3	keep	past	it			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund		Snowdrop		tree rules
5	be	past				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cause she was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 bored	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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