Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), The Golden Branch, Three Dwarfs begin…

the boot thing was so random, what was that about

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boot thing · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1558 «Fairy Tales (pg540), The Golden Branch, Three Dwarfs begins: the Cricket and the Grasshopper reach the Golden Branch and are freed, and a stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the snow» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	compound
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 random	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 random	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 random	advmod
6	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 random	parataxis
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 that	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 what	nsubj
11	about	about	ADV	_	6 random	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boot thing					about, random property	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

a trial to check his loyalty to kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trial	det
2	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 check	mark
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trial	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 loyalty	nmod:poss
6	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 check	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 kids	case
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive		his loyalty				to kids	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loyalty=Theme

Option 2

a water test to see if he should remarry and who his new wife would be

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 test	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 test	compound
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 be	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 test	acl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 remarry	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remarry	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 remarry	aux
9	remarry	remarry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 who	cc
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	9 remarry	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wife	amod
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 who	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	a water test not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	remarry a condition, not said to happen	should	test	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	be	would	a water test	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a water test to see if he should remarry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 test	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 test	compound
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 test	acl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 remarry	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remarry	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 remarry	aux
9	remarry	remarry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	remarry a condition, not said to happen	should	he						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a test of his honesty with the stepmom's secret boot and all that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 test	det
2	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 honesty	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 honesty	nmod:poss
5	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 boot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stepmom	det
8	stepmom	stepmom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boot	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 stepmom	case
10	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boot	amod
11	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 honesty	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 test	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 that	det:predet
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 test	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test			his honesty with the stepmom's secret boot					nom test «cognition transitive»: of=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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