Exam question 2 · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal…

What instruction did the mistress give the girl concerning the sieve?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: instruction, mistress, girl · What happens: do, give, concern · To what, where: girl, sieve

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mistress	det
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 girl	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sieve	det
11	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	what instruction		tree rules
2	give	present	the mistress	the girl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
3	concern	gerund	the girl not said here	the sieve	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sieve=Experiencer

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

to sweep the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 sweep	mark
2	sweep	sweep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 yard	det
4	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sweep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	to-infinitive		the yard					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to fill it with water and bring it home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fill	mark
2	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fill	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fill	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bring	cc
7	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fill	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	7 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	to-infinitive		it				with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument
2	bring	infinitive		water				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

to fetch wood and bring it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bring	cc
5	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fetch	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		wood					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
2	bring back	infinitive		wood					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

to wash it in the stream and dry it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 wash	mark
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wash	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wash	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dry	cc
8	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wash	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive		it		the stream			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	dry	infinitive		stream					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

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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