Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out…

Ngl, how did the sister keep the fawn close to her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister · What happens: keep · To what, where: fawn

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fawn	det
9	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 close	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the sister	the fawn				Ngl vocative; close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fawn=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She tied him with her golden garter

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 garter	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 garter	nmod:poss
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 garter	amod
7	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	She	him = he				with her golden garter	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient with garter=Co-Patient

Option 2

She bound him with her belt

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 bound	nsubj
2	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bound	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 belt	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 belt	nmod:poss
6	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	past	She	him = he				with her belt	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with belt=Co-Patient

Option 3

She held him tight.

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 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	obj
4	tight	tight	ADV	_	2 held	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	She	him = he				tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

She tied him with a silk ribbon

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 ribbon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ribbon	det
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ribbon	compound
7	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	She	him = he				with a silk ribbon	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient with ribbon=Co-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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/99-pg11027-part2/t12/