Test 2 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless prin…

Mate, what was the old witch floating in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, old witch · What happens: be, float · To what, where: old witch

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1653 «Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless princes promise their unborn brother to a witch to escape a storm» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 witch	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 witch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 witch	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 witch	acl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 floating	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the old witch	the old witch					tree rules
2	float	gerund	the old witch not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

a dough-trough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trough	det
2	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trough	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dough	punct
4	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

an old barrel tied up with heavy ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 barrel	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 barrel	amod
3	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 barrel	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 tied	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 ropes	case
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ropes	amod
8	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	participle		a old barrel not said here				with heavy ropes	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with rope=Co-Patient

Option 3

a little wooden trough used for kneading bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trough	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trough	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trough	amod
4	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 trough	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	kneading	kneading	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bread	compound
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a little wooden trough not said here				for kneading bread	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a wooden bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bowl	amod
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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