Test 10 · ★ · Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her l…
so the wedding dress was ruined, what did they do, cry?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: ruin, do, cry · To what, where: wedding dress
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1652 «Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her lost husband, helped by the Sun, the Moon and the Wind» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 ruined | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dress | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dress | compound |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ruined | aux:pass |
| 6 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ruined | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 do | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruined | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | past · passive | the wedding dress | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | they | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | infinitive | they not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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
they had to start over from scratch and sew everything again by morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 start | mark |
| 4 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 start | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 scratch | case |
| 7 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 start | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sew | cc |
| 9 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 start | conj |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 sew | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 sew | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | they | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start over | to-infinitive | they not said here | scratch | over property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | sew | infinitive | they not said here | everything | again; morning | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Product |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
they had to start over from scratch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 start | mark |
| 4 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 start | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 scratch | case |
| 7 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 start | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | they | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start over | to-infinitive | they not said here | scratch | over property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
they had to start over from scratch, buying new silk from every merchant in town
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 start | mark |
| 4 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 start | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 scratch | case |
| 7 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 start | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 buying | punct |
| 9 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 start | advcl |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 silk | amod |
| 11 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buying | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 merchant | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 merchant | det |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buying | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 merchant | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | they | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start over | to-infinitive | they not said here | scratch | over property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | buy | gerund | they not said here | new silk | every merchant in town | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent silk=Theme from merchant=Source |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
they fixed it with some new thread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fixed | nsubj |
| 2 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fixed | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 thread | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 thread | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thread | amod |
| 7 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fixed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | they | it | with some new thread | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with thread=Co-Patient |
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