Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the…

Gutted, why were her arms so knackered?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, knacker · To what, where: arms

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 knackered	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 knackered	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knackered	aux:pass
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 knackered	nsubj:pass
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 knackered	advmod
8	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 knackered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	knacker	past · passive		her arms					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 wet ground and the thorn bushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ground	amod
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bushes	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bushes	det
6	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bushes	compound
7	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ground	conj

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

Option 2

the steep hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hill	det
2	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hill	amod
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the long climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 climb	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 climb	amod
3	climb	climb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

carrying the brass pitcher up the whole way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pitcher	det
3	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pitcher	compound
4	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carrying	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	8 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		the brass pitcher				up the whole way	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=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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