Test 3 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

Bruv, why kept the goose getting burnt, like three times?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goose · What happens: keep, get · To what, where: Bruv

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 kept	advmod
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goose	det
6	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 goose	acl
8	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 getting	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 times	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 times	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 getting	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle · passive		Bruv					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme goose=Attribute
2	get	gerund	the goose not said here				time	burnt property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

the fire was too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fire					hot property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the golden bird's spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spell	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bird	case
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell		the golden bird						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the cook was careless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 careless	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 careless	cop
4	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cook					careless property	tree rules

Option 4

the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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