Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Snowdrop, part 31: the queen's three disgui…

Yo, how did the dwarfs get the comb out of her hair?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: do, get · To what, where: comb, hair

This is test 13 · ★ 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	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarfs	det
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 comb	det
9	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 hair	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hair	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the dwarfs	the comb		her hair			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comb=Stimulus

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

They pulled it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 pulled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past	They	it					tree rules

Option 2

They pulled it out gently and she woke up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 pulled	compound:prt
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	2 pulled	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woke	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woke	nsubj
8	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 woke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past	They	it				gently property	tree rules
2	wake up	past	she						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They took it away once they found it and she got well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	7 found	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take away	past	They	it	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	find	past	they	it		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	get	past	she		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They cut the hair and gave her a sip of wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hair	det
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sip	det
9	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 wine	case
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cut	past	They	the hair		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product
2	give	past	They not said here	a sip of wine	her = she	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient sip=Theme
3	sip			wine		nom sip «act transitive»: of=patient

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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