Test 9 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper…

Why did they call her Cinder-breech, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: call · To what, where: Cinder breech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1084 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper, part 9: Puss eats the Ogre and wins a castle, then Cinderilla is left behind» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 call	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breech	nmod:poss
6	Cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breech	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Cinder	punct
8	breech	breech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breech	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	they	her Cinder breech and mate					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent breech=Recipient

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 sat in the ashes all the time because she had to clean the fire

The tree, 15 words

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ashes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ashes	det
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl:unmarked
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 clean	mark
13	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	She		the ashes	time	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ash=Location
2	have	past	she				tree rules
3	clean	to-infinitive	she not said here	the fire			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient

Option 2

She cleaned the hearth each day

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 cleaned	nsubj
2	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hearth	det
4	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleaned	obj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleaned	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past	She	the hearth			day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hearth=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She sat in the ashes all the time

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ashes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ashes	det
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	She			the ashes	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ash=Location

Option 4

She liked the smell of smoke

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 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smell	det
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 smoke	case
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	She	the smell of smoke					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot smell=Theme
2	smell		smoke						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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