Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

What's the gig Burchard gave her, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gig · What happens: be, give · To what, where: fr, Burchard

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 gave	obj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gig	det
4	gig	gig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
5	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gig	appos
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	give	past	the gig	fr	Burchard				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

clean out the stables and spin nettles every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 clean	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stables	det
4	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 clean	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spin	cc
6	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 clean	conj
7	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spin	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spin	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean out	imperative	you not said here	the stables					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=Patient
2	spin	present	you not said here	nettles			day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nettle=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

spin nettles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nettles	compound
2	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

weave linen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weave	weave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 weave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	imperative	you not said here	linen					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Product

Option 4

tend the cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cows	det
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	imperative	you not said here	the cows					vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

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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