Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

mint, what was Placida stuck doing for the wool?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mint · What happens: be, do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 stuck	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	cop
5	Placida	Placida	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	compound
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 mint	parataxis
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stuck	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 wool	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wool	det
10	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mint					stuck property	tree rules
2	do	gerund	mint not said here					for the wool	vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

dyeing wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dyeing	dye	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dyeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dye	gerund		wool					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Patient

Option 2

combing the wool all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wool	det
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 combing	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 combing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	gerund		the wool			day		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

drawing water for dyeing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drawing	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 dyeing	case
4	dyeing	dyeing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drawing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund		water				for dyeing	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Result for dyeing=Beneficiary

Option 4

carding wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carding	card	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	card	gerund		wool					tree rules

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