Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…

Mate, what did he eat to make the horns go away again?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: eat, make, go away · To what, where: Mate, horns

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 eat	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horns	det
10	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support	Mate	Mate			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	Mate not said here	the horns			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset horn=Product
3	go away	present	Mate		again	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

the green plums that he picked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plums	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plums	amod
3	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 picked	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 picked	nsubj
6	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plums	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	he						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the green plums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plums	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plums	amod
3	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the small green plums from the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plums	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plums	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plums	amod
4	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plums	nmod

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

Option 4

the red plums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plums	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plums	amod
3	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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