Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

wait so her mum nicked fruit from some fairy garden, what was the wall like

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, mum, fairy garden · What happens: wait, nick, be · To what, where: fruit, fairy garden, wall

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 nicked	advmod
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 garden	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 garden	det
9	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garden	amod
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wall	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 wall	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wall	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 garden	nmod
16	like	like	INTJ	_	15 wall	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	nick	past	her mum	fruit	some fairy garden	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme from garden=Source
3	is a	past	some fairy garden	the wall		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

too high for their ladders, even stuck together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 high	advmod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 ladders	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ladders	nmod:poss
5	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 high	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 stuck	advmod
8	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 high	conj
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick together	participle						together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

too high for their ladders, even stuck together, and guarded by the fairy's dragon

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 high	advmod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 ladders	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ladders	nmod:poss
5	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 high	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 stuck	advmod
8	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 high	parataxis
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 stuck	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 guarded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 guarded	cc
12	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stuck	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 dragon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fairy	det
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dragon	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 fairy	case
17	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick together	participle						together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	guard	participle						by the fairy's dragon	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

too high for their ladders, even when they were stuck together with tar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 high	advmod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 ladders	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ladders	nmod:poss
5	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 high	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stuck	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	11 stuck	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 stuck	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stuck	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stuck	aux:pass
11	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 high	conj
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 stuck	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 tar	case
14	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick together	past · passive		ladders = ladder				with tar; together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tar=Theme

Option 4

too tall to climb with ladders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 climb	mark
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tall	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 ladders	case
6	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	to-infinitive						with ladders	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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