Test 2 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

Innit wicked, what did the first head want the girl to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit, first head · What happens: do, want · To what, where: girl

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Innit	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 head	amod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 girl	acl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Innit		tree rules
2	want	present	the first head	the girl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive	the first head not said here	the girl not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

wash it all over with warm water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wash	obj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 over	advmod
4	over	over	ADV	_	1 wash	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it				with warm water; over property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

wash it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

wash it proper and then dry it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wash	obj
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	1 wash	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dry	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dry	advmod
6	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 wash	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dry	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 dry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it				properly property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	dry off	infinitive	you not said here	it			then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

Option 4

brush it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 brush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here	it					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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