Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the sw…

How did she get to the lady's house, dead comfy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: get

This is test 8 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lady	case
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 comfy	amod
12	comfy	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	she					to the lady's house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result

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

Walking behind the carriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	behind	behind	ADP	_	4 carriage	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 carriage	det
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				the carriage			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind carriage=Trajectory

Option 2

Riding on the back step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 step	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 step	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 step	compound
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund						on the back step	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Sitting up front on the driver's box with a blanket wrapped round her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Sitting	compound:prt
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 box	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 driver	case
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 blanket	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 blanket	det
11	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 blanket	acl
13	round	round	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	gerund		front		the driver's box		with a blanket	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on box=Location
2	wrap	participle		a blanket not said here				round driver	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round she=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sat next to the coachman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	next	next	ADV	_	1 Sat	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 coachman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coachman	det
5	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past						to the coachman; next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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