Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

did the long-nose princess get the shirt clean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nose princess · What happens: do, get · To what, where: shirt

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nose	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 princess	compound
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shirt	det
9	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the nose princess	the shirt				clean property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shirt=Stimulus

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

Nope, she scrubbed for hours and the tallow spots only grew larger across the whole shirt

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 scrubbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scrubbed	nsubj
4	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 hours	case
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scrubbed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spots	det
9	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spots	compound
10	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 grew	advmod
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scrubbed	conj
13	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grew	xcomp
14	across	across	ADP	_	17 shirt	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shirt	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shirt	amod
17	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	past	she				hour		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	the tallow spots			the whole shirt		large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nope, it stayed dirty too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it					dirty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nope, the spots actually got bigger and bigger the more she scrubbed at them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spots	det
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 scrubbed	advcl
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 got	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bigger	cc
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 bigger	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 more	det
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 scrubbed	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 scrubbed	nsubj
13	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 scrubbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the spots					actually, big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	scrub	past	she					at spots = spot	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at they=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, the spots got bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spots	det
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the spots					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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