Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Wait, what did the brothers actually get for messing up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: wait, do, get, mess up

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 messing	mark
10	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 get	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 messing	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			tree rules
3	get	present	the brothers	actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	mess up	gerund	the brothers not said here		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 · ✓ the right answer

Three red stripes and a rub of salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stripes	nummod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stripes	amod
3	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rub	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rub	det
6	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stripes	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 salt	case
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rub	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub			salt					nom rub «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Three red marks and a slap of mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 marks	nummod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 marks	amod
3	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slap	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 slap	det
6	slap	slap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marks	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 mud	case
8	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slap	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slap			mud					nom slap «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Three red stripes cut on the back and then a hard rub of salt in them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stripes	nummod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stripes	amod
3	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stripes	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rub	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 rub	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rub	det
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rub	amod
12	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stripes	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 salt	case
14	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rub	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 salt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle		Three red stripes and a hard rub of salt in stripes not said here		the back			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	rub			salt in stripes					nom rub «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Three red stripes and a rub of salt, and they were sent home in shame

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stripes	nummod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stripes	amod
3	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rub	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rub	det
6	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stripes	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 salt	case
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rub	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sent	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sent	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	aux:pass
13	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stripes	acl
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 sent	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 shame	case
16	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive	Three red stripes and a rub of salt not said here	stripes = stripe		shame		home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shame=Destination
2	rub			salt					nom rub «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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