Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

test: Sis, what did the cat give them for escaping?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: give, escape · To what, where: Sis, them

This is test 9 · ★ 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	9 give	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Sis	punct
3	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 escaping	mark
12	escaping	escape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 give	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	test	Sis	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	escape	gerund	test not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

a handkerchief and a comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handkerchief	det
2	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 comb	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 comb	det
5	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handkerchief	conj

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

Option 2

a hat and a candle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hat	det
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 candle	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hat	conj

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

Option 3

a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a ring and a hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hat	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hat	det
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ring	conj

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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