Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

who was the hazel-nut kid's mum laughing at?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be, laugh · To what, where: mum

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 mum	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mum	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kid	det
4	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nut	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hazel	punct
6	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kid	compound
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mum	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 kid	case
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 mum	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	10 laughing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the nut kid's mum					tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	the nut kid's mum not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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 tiny horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the storks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

her tiny son's big plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plan	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 son	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plan	amod
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan		her tiny son						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

her son's new hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 son	case
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hat	amod
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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