Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a…

why were the sisters stuck to the goose?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: be, stick · To what, where: sisters

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 773 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a stick and a horse free the maiden, then Dummling's goose gathers a crowd» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stuck	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sisters	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stuck	nsubj
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 goose	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goose	det
8	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sisters					tree rules
2	stick	past	the sisters					to the goose	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to goose=Co-Patient

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 touched it, couldn't pull off

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 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	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 touched	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pull	punct
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pull	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 pull	advmod
7	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 touched	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	they	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	not pull off	could	they not said here						vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they were greedy

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	3 greedy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	cop
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they grabbed it, couldn't let go

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 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	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 grabbed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grabbed	conj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grab	past	they	it	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not let	could	they not said here		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	they not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they fed it, then they fled

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 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	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 fed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fled	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fled	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fled	nsubj
7	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	they	it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	flee	past	they				then		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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