Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Snowdrop, part 31: the queen's three disgui…

Ok, so who first found Snowdrop lying on the floor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: find, lie · To what, where: Snowdrop, floor

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ok	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 found	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 found	nsubj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 found	advmod
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 found	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		Snowdrop				first property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Attribute clause=Theme
2	lie	gerund	Snowdrop not said here			the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

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 mirror, when it saw her lying on the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mirror	det
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mirror	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saw	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the mirror	her = she					tree rules
2	lie	gerund	her = she not said here			the bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location

Option 2

The dwarfs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dwarfs, when they came home from the mountains at evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 came	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 mountains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountains	det
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 evening	case
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the dwarfs			the mountains	evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location

Option 4

A pedlar who came to the door at noon time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pedlar	det
2	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pedlar	acl:relcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a pedlar			the door	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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