Test 8 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Prince Désiré and Princess Zizi, part 6…

wait, why did the bricklayer whack her with a broom, that's harsh

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bricklayer, that · What happens: wait, whack, be · To what, where: her

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1564 «Orange Fairy Book, Prince Désiré and Princess Zizi, part 61: the last orange holds a thirsty canary, then Titty comes to the well» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whack	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 whack	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whack	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bricklayer	det
6	bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whack	nsubj
7	whack	whack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 whack	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 broom	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 broom	det
11	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whack	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 harsh	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 harsh	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 harsh	cop
15	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whack	past · do-support	the bricklayer	her = she	with a broom	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with broom=Instrument
3	is	present	that		harsh 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

cause she came back dirty and lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lazy	cc
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dirty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here					dirty property	tree rules
2	come back	past	she						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

cause she lost the can and was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 can	det
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rude	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rude	cop
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					lose property	tree rules
2	is	past	she not said here					rude property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause she came back with no water and was lazy and proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lazy	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lazy	cop
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 proud	cc
12	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lazy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	come back	past	she	with no water	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	she not said here	lazy property	tree rules
4	be		she not said here		tree rules

Option 4

cause she came back with no water, having lost the bucket and can, and she was lazy and proud of it

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	parataxis
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
9	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lost	aux
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bucket	det
12	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 can	cc
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lazy	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lazy	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lazy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lazy	cop
19	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 proud	cc
21	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lazy	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	come back	past	she		with no water	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lose	gerund · perfect		the bucket		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Eventuality
4	is	past	she		lazy property	tree rules
5	be		she not said here		of bucket	tree rules

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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