Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

wait, what did Hans demand, like, a total deal-breaker?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: Hans demand

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 demand	compound
6	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	6 demand	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 breaker	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 breaker	det
11	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 breaker	amod
12	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 breaker	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 deal	punct
14	breaker	breaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 demand	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		Hans demand and a total deal breaker					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

she had to be really smart

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 smart	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 smart	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 smart	advmod
6	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here					smart property	tree rules

Option 2

she had to be really tall

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 tall	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tall	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here					tall property	tree rules

Option 3

she had to be, like, super smart and also totally fearless

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 be	mark
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	2 had	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smart	punct
8	super	super	ADV	_	9 smart	advmod
9	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fearless	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	13 fearless	advmod
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	13 fearless	advmod
13	fearless	fearless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smart	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						tree rules
2	be	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she had to be really smart and never cry in the cellar again

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 smart	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 smart	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 smart	advmod
6	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cry	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 cry	advmod
9	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cellar	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cellar	det
12	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cry	obl
13	again	again	ADV	_	9 cry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here			smart property	tree rules
3	not cry speech: express	infinitive	she not said here	the cellar	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cellar=Location

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