Test 4 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

Wicked, what do the guinea pigs wear on their trotters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guinea pigs · What happens: do, wear · To what, where: trotters

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pigs	det
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pigs	compound
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wear	nsubj
8	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 trotters	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 trotters	nmod:poss
11	trotters	trotter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wear	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	wear	present	the guinea pigs			pigs's trotters			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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

Tiny shoes made from hollow walnut shells tied on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shoes	amod
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shoes	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 shells	case
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shells	amod
6	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shells	compound
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shells	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 tied	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Tiny shoes not said here		hollow walnut shells			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from shell=Material
2	tie on	participle		hollow walnut shells not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Paper bags tied on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bags	compound
2	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tied	nsubj:pass
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 tied	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie on	participle · passive		Paper bags					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nutshells for shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nutshells	nutshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 shoes	case
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nutshells	nmod

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

Option 4

Tiny wooden clogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clogs	amod
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clogs	amod
3	clogs	clog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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