Test 9 · ★ · Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of t…

Ngl, how did the witch fix the whole mess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: fix · To what, where: whole mess

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fix	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fix	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fix	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fix	nsubj
7	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mess	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mess	amod
10	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fix	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past · do-support	the witch	the whole mess				Ngl vocative	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mess=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 · ← Mova's choice

burned a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		a tree					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

burned an oak into ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 oak	det
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burned	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 ashes	case
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		a oak		ashes			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oak=Theme

Option 3

boiled herbs in a pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pot	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 herbs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

lit a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lit	lit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	imperative	you not said here	a fire					tree rules

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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