Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…

Oi, why did Cat-skin hide her fancy dress in a nutshell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: do, hide · To what, where: Cat skin, fancy dress, nutshell

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hide	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Oi	acl:relcl
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Cat	punct
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dress	nmod:poss
10	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dress	amod
11	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 nutshell	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nutshell	det
14	nutshell	nutshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Cat skin					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Eventuality
2	hide	present	Oi	her fancy dress		a nutshell			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dress=Patient in nutshell=Location

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

Cos she wanted it for the ball, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 ball	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ball	det
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 wanted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	it				for the ball	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos she needed it for the feast, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 feast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feast	det
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	Cos	it				for the feast and innit	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3

Cos she was scared the cook would nick it before the feast, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nick	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 nick	aux
8	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nick	obj
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 feast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feast	det
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nick	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					scared property	tree rules
2	nick	would	the scared cook	it			before the feast and innit		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Cos she needed to hide it from the huntsmen and the cook, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hide	mark
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hide	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 huntsmen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 huntsmen	det
9	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hide	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cook	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cook	det
12	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 huntsmen	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 huntsmen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	Cos						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cos not said here	it		the huntsmen and the cook and innit			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from huntsman=Beneficiary

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