Test 8 · ★ · Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is mar…

what did the princess keep saying on the walk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: do, keep, say · To what, where: walk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 walk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walk	det
9	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	keep	present	the princess		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the princess not said here	the walk	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

ugh, I wish I'd married Grisly-beard and not this fiddler at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 wish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ugh	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
4	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 married	nsubj:pass
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 married	aux
7	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wish	ccomp
8	Grisly	grisly	ADV	_	7 married	advmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 beard	punct
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 married	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fiddler	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 fiddler	advmod
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 fiddler	det
14	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beard	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 married	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry	would · passive		I		all		beard and this fiddler obl; grisly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

ugh, I wish I'd married Grisly-beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 wish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ugh	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
4	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 married	nsubj:pass
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 married	aux
7	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wish	ccomp
8	Grisly	grisly	ADV	_	7 married	advmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Grisly	punct
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry	would · passive		I				grisly property	tree rules

Option 3

ugh, I wish I'd married the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 wish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ugh	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
4	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 married	nsubj:pass
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 married	aux
7	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wish	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry	would · passive		I					tree rules

Option 4

ugh, I wish I'd wed the good king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 wish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ugh	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
4	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wed	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wed	aux
7	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 king	amod
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	wed	would	I	the good king					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient

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