Test 10 · ★ · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks…

how'd the boots fit Little Thumb's tiny legs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boots · What happens: fit · To what, where: tiny legs

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1469 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks the Ogre, steals his boots and gold, and grows rich» 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 fit	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 fit	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boots	det
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	nsubj
5	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Thumb	amod
7	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 legs	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Thumb	case
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	the boots	Little Thumb's tiny legs					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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

they are fairy boots that change with each new wearer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boots	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	cop
3	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boots	amod
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 change	nsubj
6	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 wearer	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 wearer	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wearer	amod
10	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	fairy boots					tree rules
2	change	present	fairy boots					with each new wearer	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

fairy boots that grow or shrink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boots	amod
2	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boots	acl:relcl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 shrink	cc
6	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	fairy boots						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shrink	present	fairy boots not said here						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

fairy boots that stretch wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boots	amod
2	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stretch	nsubj
4	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boots	acl:relcl
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stretch	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	present	fairy boots					wide property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

fairy boots that grow or shrink to any size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boots	amod
2	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boots	acl:relcl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 shrink	cc
6	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 size	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 size	det
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	fairy boots					to any size	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shrink	present	fairy boots not said here						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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