Test 3 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the w…

wait, what did Esben wrap in skin for the witch to bite?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Esben · What happens: wait, wrap, bite · To what, where: skin

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1659 «Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the witch, saves his brothers and goes home» 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	_	6 wrap	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wrap	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrap	aux
5	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wrap	nsubj
6	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	parataxis
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 skin	case
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrap	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 witch	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrap	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bite	mark
13	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrap	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wrap	past · do-support	Esben	skin	for the witch	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme in skin=Destination
3	bite	to-infinitive	Esben not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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

a long iron nail wrapped in cow skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nail	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nail	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nail	compound
4	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 nail	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 skin	case
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	compound
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle		a long iron nail not said here		cow skin			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a brass key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 key	det
2	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 key	compound
3	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a silver ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

an iron nail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nail	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nail	compound
3	nail	nail	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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