Test 10 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a…

What was the spoon like that they gave her for the pond, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spoon, they · What happens: be, give · To what, where: spoon, her

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1910 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a kind Fairy helps Helena sort the feathers and empty the pond, and her cruel stepmother plans something worse» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spoon	det
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 gave	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 gave	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoon	acl:relcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 pond	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pond	det
12	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bro	punct
14	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pond	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the spoon						tree rules
2	give	past	they	the spoon not said here	her = she			for the pond and bro	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme for pond=Asset

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

A spoon with a bent handle and no bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spoon	det
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 handle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handle	det
5	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handle	amod
6	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoon	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bowl	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 bowl	det
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handle	conj

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

Option 2

It was far too small to dig with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 small	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dig	mark
7	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 small	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					far, small property	tree rules
2	dig	to-infinitive							vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Full of holes, so it was impossible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 holes	case
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Full	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 impossible	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 impossible	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 impossible	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 impossible	cop
8	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Full	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						impossible property	tree rules

Option 4

It was an old wooden spoon with a crack in the handle and a huge number of holes all over the bowl

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spoon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoon	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spoon	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spoon	amod
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spoon	amod
6	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 crack	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crack	det
9	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoon	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 handle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 handle	det
12	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crack	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 number	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 number	det
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 number	amod
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 handle	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 holes	case
18	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 number	nmod
19	all	all	ADV	_	22 bowl	advmod
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 bowl	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bowl	det
22	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a old wooden spoon		the bowl		with a crack in the handle and a huge number of holes	tree rules

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