Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

Be honest, did the sea get salty from the mill?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sea · What happens: be, do, get

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 honest	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 mill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salty	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here	honest property	tree rules
2	do	past	you not said here		tree rules
3	get	present	the sea	salty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nah, the mill grinds sand at the bottom of the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 grinds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mill	det
4	mill	mill	NOUN	_	5 grinds	nsubj
5	grinds	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grinds	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grinds	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bottom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	present	the mill	sand		the bottom of the lake			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it grinds salt at the bottom and never stops grinding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grinds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grinds	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grinds	nsubj
4	grinds	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grinds	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grinds	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stops	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 stops	advmod
11	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grinds	conj
12	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grind	present	it	salt	the bottom	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument salt=Patient
2	not stop	present				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grind	gerund				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it grinds salt at the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grinds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grinds	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grinds	nsubj
4	grinds	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grinds	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grinds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	present	it	salt		the bottom			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument salt=Patient

Option 4

Nah, the mill is at the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 bottom	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mill	det
4	mill	mill	NOUN	_	8 bottom	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bottom	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the mill			the bottom			tree rules

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