Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

Yo, what did the maidens do before dipping out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maidens · What happens: do, dip out

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maidens	det
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 dipping	mark
9	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 do	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 dipping	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the maidens	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dip out	gerund	the maidens not said here	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Baked a cake with poison in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cake	det
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 poison	case
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baked	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poison	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	participle		a cake				with poison in poison	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cake=Patient with poison=Instrument

Option 2

Baked a pie with venom in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pie	det
3	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 venom	case
5	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pie	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 venom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	participle		a pie				with venom in venom	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pie=Patient with venom=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Baked a sweet cake with poison in it and gave it to the old witch to eat

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cake	det
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cake	amod
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baked	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 poison	case
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baked	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 poison	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Baked	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 witch	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 witch	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 witch	amod
15	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bake	participle	a sweet cake		with poison in poison	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cake=Patient with poison=Instrument
2	give	past	cake	the old witch		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to witch=Recipient
3	eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cooked a meal with poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meal	det
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 poison	case
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	participle		a meal				with poison	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent meal=Patient with poison=Instrument

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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