Test 2 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

Mate, what did the lazy girl do to the loaves, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lazy girl · What happens: do, innit · To what, where: Mate

This is test 2 · ★ 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	8 do	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 loaves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loaves	det
11	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the lazy girl	Mate				to the loaves	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive	the lazy girl not said here						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

gave them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		them = they				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

chucked them down the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

stamped on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stamped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	past						on them = they	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

ate them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «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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