Test 8 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…

What did the goose have to do with the herb, like, to make it work?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: goose · What happens: do, have, make, work · To what, where: goose

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goose	det
4	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 herb	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 herb	det
10	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	15 make	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	have	present	the goose			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	the goose not said here		with the herb	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	to-infinitive		goose		tree rules
5	work	infinitive	goose not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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

sing to it at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sing	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here		it		night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient

Option 2

dig it up at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 dig	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 dig	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	imperative	you not said here	it			dawn		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

pick it fresh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 pick	obj
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 pick	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	it				fresh property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

find it under a chestnut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 find	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 chestnut	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chestnut	det
5	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	it		a chestnut			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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