Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess…

is the wind thing actually real or is she just lying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: wind thing

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 98 «Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess is tricked by her maid on the road and loses her horse and her place» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 real	csubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 real	advmod
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 lying	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lying	aux
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lying	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 lying	advmod
11	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 real	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the wind thing					tree rules
2	lie	present · progressive	she						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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

it's a trick the maid taught 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	4 trick	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maid	det
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taught	nsubj
7	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	acl:relcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taught	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a trick					tree rules
2	teach speech: other	past	the maid	a trick not said here	her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it's real, because she calls the wind with the rhyme her mother taught her long ago

The tree, 17 words

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	3 real	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 calls	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 calls	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 calls	nsubj
7	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calls	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 rhyme	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rhyme	det
12	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calls	obl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taught	nsubj
15	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rhyme	acl:relcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taught	iobj
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 ago	advmod
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 calls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			real property	tree rules
2	call	present	she	the wind		with the rhyme; ago property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient
3	teach speech: other	past	her mother	the rhyme not said here	her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3

she calls the wind with a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 song	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	she	the wind				with a song	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it's the wind she calls on with her rhyme

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 wind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wind	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calls	nsubj
6	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wind	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 calls	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 rhyme	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rhyme	nmod:poss
10	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the wind		tree rules
2	call on speech: assert	present	she	the wind not said here	with her rhyme	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient
3	rhyme		her = she			nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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