Test 6 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

Did the trees really have partridges hanging off them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trees, partridges · What happens: do, have, hang off · To what, where: partridges, trees

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	partridges	partridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 partridges	acl
8	off	off	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hanging	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	have	present	the trees	partridges	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partridge=Patient
3	hang off	gerund	partridges not said here	trees = tree	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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, ready roasted ones on every branch, dripping with gravy, proper mad

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ones	punct
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 branch	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 branch	det
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dripping	punct
10	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ones	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 gravy	case
12	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dripping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mad	punct
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mad	amod
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	drip	gerund	ready roasted ones on every branch not said here					with gravy	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gravy=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, ready cooked ones on each tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 ready	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, ready roasted ones on every branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 branch	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 branch	det
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nah, just apples and some plums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 apples	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 apples	advmod
4	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 plums	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 plums	det
7	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 apples	conj

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

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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