Test 6 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

What did the Carl wear on his feet, like, big as a boat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Carl wear, feet

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» 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	5 wear	det
4	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wear	compound
5	wear	wear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 feet	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 big	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 big	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 big	punct
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	parataxis
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 boat	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boat	det
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 big	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

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

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

Boots shaped like ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Boots	acl
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 ships	case
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	participle		Boots not said here				like ships	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Brogues shaped like boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brogues	brogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Brogues	acl
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 boats	case
4	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	participle		Brogues not said here				like boats	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

Huge iron-shod boots shaped like boats and covered in cold mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boots	amod
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shod	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 iron	punct
4	shod	shoe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boots	amod
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boots	acl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 boats	case
8	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shaped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 covered	cc
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shaped	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 mud	case
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mud	amod
13	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shoe	participle			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	shape	participle	Huge shod boots not said here	like boats	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	cover	participle		in cold mud	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mud=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Shoes like long canoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 canoes	case
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 canoes	amod
4	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shoes	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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