Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out…

Real talk, what did the sister promise the fawn?

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

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 promise	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	nsubj
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fawn	det
10	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	the sister	Real talk					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal 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 would never forsake him

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	4 forsake	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forsake	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 forsake	advmod
4	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forsake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forsake	would	She	him = he					tree rules

Option 2

She would never forsake him, not even if the whole world turned against them

The tree, 14 words

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	4 forsake	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forsake	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 forsake	advmod
4	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forsake	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 turned	advmod
8	even	even	ADV	_	13 turned	advmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 turned	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turned	nsubj
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forsake	conj
14	against	against	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forsake	would	She	him = he					tree rules
2	not turn a condition, not said to happen	past	the whole world					against them = they	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against they=Trajectory

Option 3

She would never forsake him and would bring him bread every single day

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	4 forsake	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forsake	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 forsake	advmod
4	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forsake	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bring	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bring	aux
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forsake	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bring	obj
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forsake	would	She	him = he					tree rules
2	bring	would	She not said here	bread	him = he		day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bread=Theme

Option 4

She would protect him always

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 protect	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 protect	aux
3	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 protect	obj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 protect	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	would	She		him = he			always property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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