Test 12 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

wait, what was the lathe used for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, use · To what, where: lathe

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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	_	6 lathe	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 lathe	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lathe	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lathe	det
6	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lathe	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	7 used	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the lathe	tree rules
3	use	participle		the lathe not said here	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Turning skulls round to play ninepins with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turning	obj
3	round	round	ADV	_	1 Turning	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 play	mark
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turning	advcl
6	ninepins	ninepin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 play	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	5 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		skulls				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skull=Theme
2	play	to-infinitive		ninepins					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ninepin=Theme

Option 2

Shaping table legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaping	shape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 legs	compound
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shaping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	gerund		table legs					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product

Option 3

Turning the skulls and bones round for the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skulls	det
3	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turning	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bones	cc
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 skulls	conj
6	round	round	ADV	_	1 Turning	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 game	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		the skulls and bones				for the game; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skull=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Turning skulls round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turning	obj
3	round	round	ADV	_	1 Turning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		skulls				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skull=Theme

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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