Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out…

Mate, was the goose-girl's horse head actually talking?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate horse head · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: Mate horse head

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 head	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 goose	punct
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horse	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 girl	case
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	compound
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 talking	nsubj
11	actually	actually	ADV	_	12 talking	advmod
12	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Mate horse head					tree rules
2	talk	gerund	Mate horse head					actually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

No, only the wind answered.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 answered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 answered	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the wind						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, Falada's head answered her from the wall of the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 answered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 head	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Falada	case
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 gate	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Falada's head		Falada	the wall of the gate			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

Option 3

No, it was only the wind, and Falada's head did not speak at all to her

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wind	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wind	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 wind	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 speak	cc
10	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 head	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Falada	case
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 speak	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 speak	advmod
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wind	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 speak	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the wind					tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	Falada's head		Falada	all			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, Falada's head answered her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 answered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 head	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Falada	case
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Falada's head		Falada				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

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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