Test 2 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

Bruv, how did Miranda get to the cave, was it a bus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miranda, cave · What happens: get, be · To what, where: bus

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bus	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bruv	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bus	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bus	nsubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bus	det
14	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 bus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Miranda					to the cave result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result
2	is a	past	cave	a bus				Bruv vocative	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

Yeah, a cart with four ponies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cart	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cart	det
4	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ponies	case
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ponies	nummod
7	ponies	pony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cart	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nah, a golden coach with silver wheels, pulled by eight white horses, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 coach	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coach	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coach	amod
5	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 wheels	case
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wheels	compound
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 coach	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 coach	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 horses	case
12	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 horses	nummod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horses	amod
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pulled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coach	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle						by eight white horses	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, a van pulled by two dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 van	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 van	det
4	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 van	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 dogs	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 dogs	nummod
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pulled	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle		a van not said here					vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, a pumpkin carriage pulled by six goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 carriage	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 carriage	det
4	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carriage	compound
5	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 carriage	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 goats	case
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 goats	nummod
9	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle		a pumpkin carriage not said here				by six goats	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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