Test 6 · ★ · Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the pri…

Bare cheeky of Grannonia, what did she do to the fox?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grannonia · What happens: do

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1905 «Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the prince becomes a dove, and Grannonia goes after him with a fox» 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cheeky	amod
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 do	advcl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Grannonia	case
4	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cheeky	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 fox	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Grannonia					to the fox	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

she slapped his nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slapped	nsubj
2	slapped	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slap	past	she	his nose					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

kicked him in the ribs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kicked	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ribs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ribs	det
5	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 kicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		him = he		the ribs			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in rib=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

whacked him on the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 whacked	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past		him = he				on the head	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on head=Patient

Option 4

she tied him up and beat him with a branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 tied	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 beat	cc
6	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tied	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beat	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 branch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 branch	det
10	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past	she	him = he					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	beat	infinitive	she not said here	him = he				with a branch	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with branch=Instrument

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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