Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

Wait, how did the queen track the soldier, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, queen · What happens: wait, track, innit · To what, where: soldier

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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 track	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 track	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 track	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 track	nsubj
7	track	track	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soldier	det
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 track	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	track	past · do-support	the queen	the soldier	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules

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

She stuffed a cloth sack with rye and cut a small slit in it

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 stuffed	nsubj
2	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sack	det
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sack	compound
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuffed	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 rye	case
7	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sack	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stuffed	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 slit	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 slit	amod
12	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	past	She	a cloth sack				with rye	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent sack=Destination with rye=Theme
2	cut	past	She not said here	a small slit		slit			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slit=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She used flour and a bag

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bag	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	She	flour and a bag					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She filled a silk bag with flour and nicked a hole in it

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 filled	nsubj
2	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bag	det
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bag	compound
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 filled	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 flour	case
7	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 filled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nicked	cc
9	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 filled	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hole	det
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nicked	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past	She	a silk bag				with flour	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bag=Patient with flour=Instrument
2	nick	past	She not said here	a hole		hole			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

Option 4

She sent her dogs out

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 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	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	4 dogs	nmod:poss
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past	She	her dogs				out property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

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