Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the fa…
Bro, why did the eldest sister chop her toe off just to fit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: eldest sister · What happens: chop, fit · To what, where: toe
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 760 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the false brides and the white dove's song» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chop | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 chop | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chop | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sister | det |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 sister | amod |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chop | nsubj |
| 8 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 toe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chop | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 fit | mark |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 fit | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fit | mark |
| 14 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 chop | advcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 chop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop | past · do-support | the eldest sister | sister's toe | Bro vocative | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | |||
| 2 | fit | to-infinitive | the eldest sister not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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 right answer
she wanted to be queen, real talk
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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 queen | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 queen | cop |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 talk | amod |
| 8 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 queen | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | queen | tree rules |
Option 2
she was desperate
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 | 3 desperate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 desperate | cop |
| 3 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | desperate property | tree rules |
Option 3
she wanted to be queen and didn't care about the pain, real talk, the prince was hers
The tree, 18 words
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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 queen | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 queen | cop |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 care | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 care | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 care | advmod |
| 9 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 pain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pain | det |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 care | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 talk | punct |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 talk | amod |
| 15 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pain | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prince | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pain | conj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hers | cop |
| 20 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pain | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not care | past · do-support | she not said here | about the pain and real talk and the prince | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about pain=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | she not said here | hers = she | tree rules |
Option 4
she wanted the prince, fr
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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fr | punct |
| 6 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prince | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | the prince and fr | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme |
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