Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

no cap, what did she find when she peeked in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: find, peek in · To what, where: cap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 find	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 peeked	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 peeked	nsubj
10	peeked	peek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 peeked	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	she	no cap					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
2	peek in	past	she						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the two ducks fast asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ducks	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ducks	nummod
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ducks	amod

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

Option 2

the two baby ducks snoring fast asleep by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ducks	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ducks	nummod
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ducks	compound
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	snoring	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ducks	acl
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 snoring	advmod
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snoring	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snoring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	gerund	the two baby ducks not said here					by the fire; asleep, fast property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

two ducks wide awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ducks	nummod
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	wide	wide	ADV	_	4 awake	advmod
4	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ducks	amod

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

Option 4

the two ducks crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ducks	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ducks	nummod
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ducks	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	the two ducks not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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