Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out…

Is the new story about a brother and sister going on a trek?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: be, go · To what, where: new story, trek

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 99 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out and the false bride is punished» 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	4 story	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 brother	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brother	det
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sister	cc
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	conj
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sister	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 trek	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 trek	det
13	trek	trek	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the new story				about a brother and sister	tree rules
2	go	gerund	sister not said here			a trek			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trek=Location

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

Yes, they flee the wicked witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 flee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flee	nsubj
4	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flee	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	present	they	the wicked witch					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme witch=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, they flee their cruel stepmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 flee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flee	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flee	nsubj
4	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stepmother	nmod:poss
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stepmother	amod
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flee	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	present	they	their cruel stepmother					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stepmother=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, they stay with their stepmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 stepmother	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stepmother	nmod:poss
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	they					with their stepmother	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with stepmother=Location

Option 4

Yes, they go hunting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 go	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	they						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	gerund	they not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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