Test 12 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

What did the stepmum do when her daughter said only "dirty creatures", like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmum, daughter · What happens: do, say · To what, where: dirty creatures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1154 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmother drowns the princess and disguises her own daughter as the bride» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stepmum	det
4	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 said	advmod
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 creatures	advmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 creatures	punct
12	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 creatures	amod
13	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 creatures	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	9 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the stepmum		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	her daughter	dirty creatures	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent creature=Topic

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

Sent her out to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sent	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Sent	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past		her = she					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	work	to-infinitive							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hit her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Beat the stepdaughter with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stepdaughter	det
3	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beat	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stick	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	the stepdaughter				with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Patient with stick=Instrument

Option 4

Locked her in the shed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Locked	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 shed	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shed	det
5	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past		her = she		the shed			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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