Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess…
so the maid is basically a total snake, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: maid · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: total snake
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 snake | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maid | det |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snake | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 snake | cop |
| 5 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 8 snake | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 snake | det |
| 7 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snake | amod |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 snake | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 snake | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the maid | a total snake | basically property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, she swapped clothes and threatened her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 swapped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swapped | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swapped | nsubj |
| 4 | swapped | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 swapped | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 threatened | cc |
| 7 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swapped | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 threatened | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | past | she | clothes | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 2 | threaten | past | she not said here | her = she | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
Option 2
yeah, she stole the bride's horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stole | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stole | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stole | nsubj |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bride | det |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 bride | case |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | she | the bride's horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
Option 3
nah, she's just grumpy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 grumpy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grumpy | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grumpy | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 grumpy | advmod |
| 6 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | grumpy property | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, she was mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | cop |
| 5 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | mean property | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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