Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras ki…

Wait, what's the doc's gig with the shoe?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: gig

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gig	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 gig	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gig	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doc	det
6	doc	doc	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gig	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 doc	case
8	gig	gig	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 shoe	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoe	det
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gig	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the doc's gig				with the shoe	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

He wraps the foot in goat-skin and paints a secret varnish on the shoe

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wraps	nsubj
2	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 foot	det
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wraps	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 skin	case
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 goat	punct
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wraps	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 paints	cc
10	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wraps	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 varnish	det
12	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 varnish	amod
13	varnish	varnish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paints	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 shoe	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shoe	det
16	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paints	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	present	He	the foot		goat skin			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in skin=Destination
2	paint	present	He not said here	a secret varnish		the shoe			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent varnish=Theme on shoe=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He uses secret varnish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 varnish	amod
4	varnish	varnish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	He	secret varnish					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent varnish=Patient

Option 3

He sells shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sells	nsubj
2	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	He	shoes					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He binds it with gold thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 binds	nsubj
2	binds	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 binds	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 thread	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thread	compound
6	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 binds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	present	He	it				with gold thread	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with thread=Co-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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