Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

what did the soldier do with the witch's blue checked apron?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: do, check

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1002 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldier takes gold from the dogs' chests, spends it, and calls the princess up with the tinder-box» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	with	with	ADP	_	12 apron	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 apron	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 witch	case
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 apron	amod
11	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 apron	amod
12	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the soldier	with the witch's blue checked apron	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	check	participle			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

he tied the gold coins in it and carried it home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coins	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tied	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carried	cc
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tied	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	he	the gold coins		it			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient
2	carry	past	he not said here	it				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he tied the money in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	he	the money		money			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

Option 3

he hid it under the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he	it		the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under bed=Location

Option 4

he gave it to the princess as a gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 gift	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gift	det
9	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	it	the princess			as a gift	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to princess=Recipient

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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