Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess…

wait, the hair thing just floats off into the stream?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hair thing · What happens: wait, float off · To what, where: stream

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 floats	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floats	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 floats	advmod
7	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 floats	compound:prt
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floats	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	float off	present	the hair thing			the stream			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stream=Destination

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

yeah, the current took it and she kept riding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 current	det
4	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
10	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	the current	it	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	past	current		tree rules
3	ride	gerund	current not said here		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it drifted away and she didn't even notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 drifted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drifted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drifted	nsubj
4	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 drifted	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 notice	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 notice	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 notice	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 notice	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 notice	advmod
11	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drifted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift away	past	it					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not notice	past · do-support	she						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

nah, it stayed on the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it			the bank			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location

Option 4

nah, she grabbed it back from the water fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 grabbed	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obl
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grabbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab back	past	she	it		the water		fast property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from water=Source

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