Test 11 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

Innit wild, what did the mum and daughter do with the key?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mum · What happens: innit, do

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Innit	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Innit	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mum	det
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 daughter	cc
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mum	conj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 key	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 key	det
13	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here	wild property	tree rules
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	the mum and daughter	with the key	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

lost it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past		it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

untied it from the handle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 untied	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 handle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 handle	det
5	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 untied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	untie	past		it				from the handle	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from handle=Co-Patient

Option 3

threw it down the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 threw	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past		it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination well=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

buried it under the step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 buried	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 step	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 step	det
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past		it				under the step	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under step=Destination

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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