Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out…

Yo, the stepmother kicked them, that's rough, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmother, that · What happens: kick, be · To what, where: them

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stepmother	det
4	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kicked	nsubj
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rough	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 rough	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rough	cop
10	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kicked	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rough	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	5 kicked	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	the stepmother	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	is	present	that					rough property	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

No, she fed them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	she	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

No, she only scolded them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 scolded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scolded	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scolded	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 scolded	advmod
5	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scolded	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scolded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	she	them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Yes, she hugged them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hugged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	nsubj
4	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hugged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	she	them = they					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, she beat them and kicked them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kicked	cc
7	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kicked	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 kicked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	she	them = they					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	kick away	past	she not said here	them = they				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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