Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier gets his human shape…

the peas thing was dead unfair, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peas thing · What happens: be, innit

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 113 «Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier gets his human shape back and claims his bride, and Cinderella begins» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peas	det
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thing	compound
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unfair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unfair	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 unfair	amod
6	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 unfair	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 unfair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	peas thing					unfair property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she picked a handful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handful	det
6	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	she	a handful					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Patient

Option 2

yeah, she had to wash them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wash	mark
6	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						tree rules
2	wash	to-infinitive	she not said here	them = they					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she had to pick them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pick	mark
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pick	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						tree rules
2	pick	to-infinitive	she not said here	them = they					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

yeah, she had to pick them all by hand before dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pick	mark
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pick	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 them	nmod:unmarked
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 hand	case
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 dusk	case
12	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						tree rules
2	pick	to-infinitive	she not said here	them = they			dusk	by hand	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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