Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

how did the princess make the cord for her escape, was it from something she bought

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, make, buy, escape · To what, where: cord, something, escape

This is test 8 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 how	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cord	det
7	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 escape	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 escape	nmod:poss
10	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cord	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 it	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 something	case
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 make	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bought	nsubj
17	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				how property	tree rules
2	make	present	the princess	the cord	something	for princess's escape	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.material PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cord=Product from something=Material for escape=Beneficiary
3	is a	past		escape			tree rules
4	buy	past	princess				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	escape		princess				nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

from flax the fairies gave her to spin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	2 flax	case
2	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairies	det
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spin	mark
8	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the fairies		her = she	flax			tree rules
2	spin	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

from linen the king had sent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	2 linen	case
2	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 linen	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect	the king	linen not said here					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Theme

Option 3

from the flax she was given

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 flax	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flax	det
3	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flax	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		she					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

from wool she bought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	2 wool	case
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bought	nsubj
4	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wool	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	she	wool not said here					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Theme

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