Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the sw…

What did the basket spit out for her dress-up, proper gorgeous?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: basket · What happens: spit out

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1768 «Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the swallow and the secret princess; a new tale begins» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 spit	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spit	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 basket	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spit	nsubj
5	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 spit	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 up	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 up	nmod:poss
9	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 up	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dress	punct
11	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gorgeous	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gorgeous	amod
14	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 up	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit out	past · do-support	the basket					for her dress up	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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

Shoes and gloves and a golden necklace with a matching pearl tiara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 gloves	cc
3	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shoes	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 necklace	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 necklace	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 necklace	amod
7	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shoes	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 tiara	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tiara	det
10	matching	match	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 tiara	amod
11	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tiara	compound
12	tiara	tiara	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 necklace	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	gerund							vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A silver ring of flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ring	nmod

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

Option 3

A glittering silver gown that sparkled brighter than the moon at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gown	det
2	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 gown	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gown	compound
4	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sparkled	nsubj
6	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gown	acl:relcl
7	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sparkled	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brighter	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sparkled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sparkle	past	a glittering silver gown				night	bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dress shining like a star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dress	det
2	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dress	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 star	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	a dress not said here					like a star	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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