Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…

Mad, what did the thread look like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thread · What happens: look

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 look	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thread	det
6	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mad	parataxis
8	like	like	ADP	_	7 look	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the thread						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Knotted and very thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thin	cc
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 thin	advmod
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Knotted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knot	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Very messy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 messy	advmod
2	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Super tangled and fragile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Super	super	ADV	_	2 tangled	advmod
2	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fragile	cc
4	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tangled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tangle	participle						super property	tree rules

Option 4

Wound up and easily broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wound	wound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Wound	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 broken	cc
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 broken	advmod
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wound	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wound up	imperative	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	break	participle	you not said here					easily property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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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