Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess…

is the old king sus or what, looking out the window?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, look out · To what, where: old king sus, window

This is test 5 · ★ 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	5 sus	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sus	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sus	amod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sus	compound
5	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sus	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 what	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 looking	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the old king sus					tree rules
2	look out	gerund		the window					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

yeah, he thought the bride was a fraud from the start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	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	9 fraud	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fraud	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fraud	det
9	fraud	fraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 start	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 start	det
12	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fraud	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the bride	a fraud		the start			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he saw her in the yard and she looked too fine for a maid

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 fine	advmod
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looked	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 maid	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 maid	det
16	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	her = she				in the yard	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	look	past	she					for a maid; fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

nah, he saw her in the yard, and she looked far too noble and fine to be any maid's servant

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 noble	advmod
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 noble	advmod
15	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fine	cc
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 noble	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	23 servant	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 servant	cop
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 maid	det
21	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 servant	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 maid	case
23	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	her = she	in the yard	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	look	past	she		noble property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	to-infinitive	she not said here	any maid's servant		tree rules

Option 4

yeah, he looked out the window and saw a girl who spoke to a horse's head in the yard

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 looked	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 spoke	nsubj
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 girl	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 head	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 head	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 horse	case
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 yard	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 yard	det
21	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look out	past	he	the window		tree rules
2	see	past	he not said here	a girl		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	past	a girl		to a horse's head; in the yard	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to head=Co-Agent

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