Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…

Lol, how come the bath-room didn't cook the Simpleton like a sausage?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bath room · What happens: come, not cook · To what, where: Simpleton

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bath	punct
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cook	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cook	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 cook	advmod
11	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Simpleton	det
13	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cook	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 sausage	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sausage	det
16	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cook	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not cook	past · do-support	the bath room	the Simpleton				like a sausage	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent simpleton=Patient

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

The thirsty comrade sprayed cold wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comrade	det
2	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 comrade	amod
3	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprayed	nsubj
4	sprayed	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wine	amod
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprayed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	past	the thirsty comrade	cold wine					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wine=Theme

Option 2

The straw comrade scattered straw and the walls froze solid because the King's magic failed

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comrade	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comrade	compound
3	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 froze	nsubj
4	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 comrade	acl
5	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scattered	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walls	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 straw	conj
9	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 froze	xcomp
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 failed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 magic	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 King	case
15	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 failed	nsubj
16	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 froze	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle	the straw comrade not said here	straw and the walls		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Theme
2	freeze	past	the straw comrade		solid property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fail	past	the King's magic			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The straw comrade scattered straw so the walls cooled down very quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comrade	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comrade	compound
3	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straw	nsubj
4	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	5 straw	amod
5	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 walls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 straw	nmod
9	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 walls	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 cooled	compound:prt
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 quickly	advmod
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 cooled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	participle		the walls not said here				quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The straw comrade made the walls freeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comrade	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comrade	compound
3	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 freeze	nsubj
7	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the straw comrade						tree rules
2	freeze	present	the walls						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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