Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the sw…

Where did the lady find her, all bright and sparkly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: find · To what, where: her

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 find	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 all	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 find	obj
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 all	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sparkly	cc
11	sparkly	sparkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bright	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the lady	her = she					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme all=Attribute

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

Mending a torn old sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sack	det
3	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sack	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sack	amod
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	gerund		a torn old sack					tree rules
2	tear	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Scrubbing the stone floor of the palace kitchen on her knees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scrubbing	scrub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floor	compound
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scrubbing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kitchen	compound
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floor	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 knees	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knees	nmod:poss
11	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scrubbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	gerund		the stone floor of the palace kitchen		her knees			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent floor=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sweeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweeping	sweeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Scrubbing a wooden tub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scrubbing	scrub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tub	det
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tub	amod
4	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scrubbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	gerund		a wooden tub					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tub=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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