Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth…

whatcha reckon the bride did with the flowers, fam?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bride · What happens: reckon, do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» 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	whatcha	whatcha	X	Foreign=Yes	2 reckon	dep
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bride	det
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckon	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flowers	det
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flowers	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	imperative	you not said here						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past	the bride					with the flowers and fam	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

decorated the door with the gay feathers and the flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	decorated	decorate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 decorated	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feathers	det
6	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feathers	compound
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 decorated	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flowers	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flowers	det
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feathers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decorate	past		the door				with the gay feathers and the flowers	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Destination with feather=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

decorated the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	decorated	decorate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 decorated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decorate	past		the door					vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Destination

Option 3

threw them in the moat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 moat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moat	det
5	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		them = they		the moat			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in moat=Destination

Option 4

hid them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past		them = they					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1647-pg5615-part36/t10/