Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…

lol the ring in the last glass was a whole plot twist ngl

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ring · What happens: be · To what, where: twist ngl

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 779 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister frees her ravens, Mrs Fox tests her suitors, and a huntsman gets a magic cloak» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 ring	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ngl	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 glass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glass	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 glass	amod
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ngl	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ngl	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 twist	amod
11	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 twist	compound
12	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ngl	compound
13	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ring in the last glass	a twist ngl					tree rules

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

he saw her ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ring	nmod:poss
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	her ring					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus

Option 2

it was a gift from the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gift	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gift	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gift	det
4	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gift	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a gift				from the king	tree rules

Option 3

it's how the witch found her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 found	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	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 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					find property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it's how the brother knew she came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj:outer
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 knew	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					know property	tree rules
2	come	past	she						vn escape-51.1-1 «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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