Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess…

how do the geese and that Curdken dude even fit in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: geese · What happens: do, fit in

This is test 7 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fit	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 geese	det
4	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fit	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Curdken	cc
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 Curdken	mark
7	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 geese	conj
8	dude	dude	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fit	aux
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 fit	advmod
10	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 fit	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the geese and Curdken not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fit in	present	the geese and Curdken						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

he's the king's nephew from the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nephew	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nephew	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nephew	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 village	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nephew	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	the king's nephew		the village			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he's the lad she has to help watch the geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lad	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lad	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lad	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lad	acl
9	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 help	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 geese	det
11	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	he	the lad	tree rules
2	have	present	she	the lad not said here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
3	help	to-infinitive			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	watch	infinitive		the geese	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme

Option 3

he's the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cook	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cook	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	the cook					tree rules

Option 4

he's the stable boy who feeds the horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 feeds	nsubj
7	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horses	det
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	the stable boy					tree rules
2	feed	present	the stable boy		the horses				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient

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