Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

Bruv, how did the dolls end up dancing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dolls · What happens: do, end up, dance

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dolls	det
6	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 end	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past		Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	end up	present	the dolls		tree rules
3	dance	gerund	the dolls not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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

John's mate rubbed six dolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 John	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbed	nsubj
4	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dolls	nummod
6	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rubbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	John's mate	six dolls					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent doll=Theme

Option 2

Ointment did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	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 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ointment	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

John's mate put ointment on six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 John	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 six	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	John's mate	ointment		six			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme on six=Destination

Option 4

The showman rubbed them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 showman	det
2	showman	showman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	nsubj
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbed	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	the showman	them = they					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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