Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out…
Wait, why was the true bride so dazzling at the feast?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, true bride · What happens: wait, be, dazzle · To what, where: true bride, feast
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bride | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 bride | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bride | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bride | det |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bride | amod |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 dazzling | advmod |
| 9 | dazzling | dazzle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bride | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feast | det |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dazzling | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the true bride | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dazzle | gerund | the true bride not said here | the feast | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 wore her silver dress
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 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dress | nmod:poss |
| 4 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dress | amod |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | She | her silver dress | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
Option 2
She wore gold.
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 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | She | gold | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
Option 3
She wore a white veil.
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 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 veil | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 veil | amod |
| 5 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | She | a white veil | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She wore her brilliant royal dress
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 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dress | amod |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dress | amod |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | She | her brilliant royal dress | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
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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