Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…

why did Mrs Fox care about red stockings and a pointed mouth tho

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mrs · What happens: fox · To what, where: care

This is test 7 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 Fox	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Fox	aux
3	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fox	nsubj
4	Fox	fox	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Fox	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 stockings	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stockings	amod
8	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Fox	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mouth	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mouth	det
11	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mouth	amod
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stockings	conj
13	tho	tho	PUNCT	_	4 Fox	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fox	past · do-support	Mrs	care				about red stockings and a pointed mouth	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus care=Experiencer

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

that's how she picked the one she liked best and sent the rest away

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 how	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 how	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 picked	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 picked	nsubj
5	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 liked	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
2	pick	past	she	the one		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	like	past	she	best		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme
4	send away	past		the rest	away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme

Option 2

it was just her favourite colour

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 colour	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 colour	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 colour	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 colour	nmod:poss
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	amod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	her favourite colour					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that's how she picked her husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 how	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 how	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 picked	nsubj
5	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 how	advcl:relcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					how property	tree rules
2	pick	past	she	her husband					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient

Option 4

that's how she picked her husband from the nine suitors who came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 how	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 how	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 picked	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 picked	nsubj
5	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 suitors	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 suitors	det
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 suitors	nummod
11	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 picked	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 suitors	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	that			how property	tree rules
2	pick	past	she	her husband	the nine suitors		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent husband=Theme from suitor=Source
3	come	past	the nine suitors				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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