Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wit…

Hang on, why did the gnome not just give her the basket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: hang on, not give · To what, where: basket, gnome

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1251 «Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wither, and the gnome's fresh turnips go missing» 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 give	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gnome	det
7	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 give	advmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 give	advmod
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 basket	det
13	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not give	past · do-support	you not said here	the basket	gnome				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient basket=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He had got it wrong, the roots were gone

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	3 got	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roots	det
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gone	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	He	it				wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	past	the roots					gone property	tree rules

Option 2

He was scared the princess would shout

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shout	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 shout	aux
7	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	would	the princess						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was too lazy

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	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

He lost it

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj

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

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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