Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out…

Was the goose-girl gutted when she got caught?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut, catch · To what, where: goose girl, girl

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 goose	punct
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 girl	acl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 caught	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caught	nsubj:pass
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	aux:pass
10	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gutted	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 girl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the goose girl	tree rules
2	gut	participle	the goose girl not said here	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	catch	past · passive	girl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

She burst into tears and begged the king not to hurt her

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 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 tears	case
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burst	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 begged	cc
6	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burst	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hurt	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hurt	mark
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 begged	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	burst	past	She			tears	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	She not said here		the king		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	not hurt	to-infinitive	She not said here	her = she			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient

Option 2

She started crying

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 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	She						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	She not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She burst into tears and told the king the whole secret

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 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 tears	case
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burst	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burst	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 secret	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 secret	amod
11	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	She			tears			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	She not said here	the whole secret	the king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient secret=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She burst into tears

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 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 tears	case
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	She			tears			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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