Test 10 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

Mate, what did she bring back from the yarn job, a web or a mess?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: bring back · To what, where: yarn job

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 bring	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bring	nsubj
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 bring	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 job	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 job	det
10	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 job	compound
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 web	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 web	det
14	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 job	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 mess	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mess	det
17	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 job	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past · do-support	she			the yarn job and a web or a mess		Mate vocative	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent what=Theme from job=Initial_Location

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

an armful of soft cotton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 armful	det
2	armful	armful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cotton	case
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cotton	amod
5	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 armful	nmod

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

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

a mess of tangled wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mess	det
2	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wool	case
4	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wool	amod
5	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mess	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tangle	participle							tree rules
2	mess			tangled wool					nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

a basket of clean linen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 linen	case
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 linen	amod
5	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 basket	nmod

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

Option 4

a mess of tangled wool and burnt thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mess	det
2	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wool	case
4	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wool	amod
5	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mess	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thread	cc
7	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thread	amod
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wool	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tangle	participle							tree rules
2	mess			tangled wool and burnt thread					nom mess «state transitive»: of=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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