Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…

What did the Great Huge Bear's chair get squashed by?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, squash · To what, where: chair

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» 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	6 Bear	det
4	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Bear	amod
5	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Bear	amod
6	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chair	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Bear	case
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
9	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 squashed	aux:pass
10	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	10 squashed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Great Huge Bear's chair					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Eventuality
2	squash	present · passive							vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»

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 sat-on pillow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pillow	det
2	sat	sat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pillow	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 pillow	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 pillow	case
5	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a broken chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	amod
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a sat-on cushion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cushion	det
2	sat	sat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cushion	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cushion	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 cushion	case
5	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a sat-on cushion that was very flat and hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cushion	det
2	sat	sat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cushion	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cushion	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 cushion	case
5	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 flat	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flat	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 flat	advmod
9	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cushion	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hard	cc
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a sat cushion					flat property	tree rules
2	be		a sat cushion not said here						tree rules

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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