Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…

What did Henry do to his heart when his master was a frog?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Henry, master · What happens: do, be · To what, where: frog

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 124 «Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Frog becomes a Prince, Henry's bands break, and Tom Thumb ends up in a cow» 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	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 frog	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frog	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 frog	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 frog	det
13	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Henry					to Henry's heart	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is a	past	Henry's master	a frog					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

Wrapped it in a cloth of silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrapped	wrap	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 Wrapped	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrapped	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 silver	case
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past		it		a cloth of silver			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cloth=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tied it up with three rope cords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	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 Tied	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Tied	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 cords	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cords	nummod
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cords	compound
7	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past		it				with three rope cords	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with cord=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bound it with three iron bands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bound	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 bands	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bands	nummod
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bands	compound
6	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bound	imperative	you not said here	it				with three iron bands	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme

Option 4

Locked it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Locked	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Locked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	participle		it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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