Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

test: Yo, what did the mice want for helping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test, mice · What happens: do, want, help

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Yo	punct
3	Yo	Yo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 test	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mice	det
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 helping	mark
11	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 want	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	test	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the mice	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	help not said to happen	gerund	the mice not said here	vn help-72.1-1-1 «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

some dried meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 meat	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 meat	amod
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a bit of bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod

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

Option 4

cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cheese	cheese	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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