Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess…

why did the false bride want Falada gone, fam?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: false bride · What happens: want · To what, where: Falada

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bride	amod
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Falada	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Falada	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the false bride	Falada					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot falada=Theme

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

she wanted his saddle for her own horse

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 saddle	nmod:poss
4	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	his saddle				for her own horse	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot saddle=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she hated horses

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	she	horses					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was scared he'd rat her out to the princess

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 'd	nsubj
5	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	ccomp
6	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 'd	obj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 'd	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 'd	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 'd	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					scared property	tree rules

Option 4

he was a threat to her plan

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 threat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 threat	det
4	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 plan	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 plan	nmod:poss
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a threat				to her plan	tree rules
2	plan		her = she						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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