Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is mar…

why did her dad make her marry the fiddler?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, her · What happens: make, marry · To what, where: her, fiddler

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 783 «Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is married off to a beggar fiddler» 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 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fiddler	det
9	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marry	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	her dad	her = she					tree rules
2	marry	infinitive	her = she not said here	the fiddler					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddler=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 · ← Mova's choice

he had sworn she'd wed the first man

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	3 sworn	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sworn	aux
3	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wed	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wed	aux
6	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sworn	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · perfect	he						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wed	would	she	the first man					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

Option 2

he swore to hand her to the first comer, and she had to obey

The tree, 14 words

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 swore	nsubj
2	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hand	mark
4	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swore	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hand	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 comer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 comer	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 comer	amod
9	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hand	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swore	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 obey	mark
15	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swear	past	he			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hand	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she	the first comer	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to comer=Destination
3	have	past	she			tree rules
4	obey	to-infinitive	she not said here			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he promised her to the stranger

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 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stranger	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	he		her = she			to the stranger goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme to stranger=Goal

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he swore to hand her to the first comer

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 swore	nsubj
2	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hand	mark
4	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swore	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hand	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 comer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 comer	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 comer	amod
9	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	he						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hand	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she		the first comer			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to comer=Destination

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