Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

Why didn't the huntsmen slip on the peas?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: do, not slip · To what, where: peas

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 slip	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 huntsmen	det
5	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slip	nsubj
6	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 peas	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peas	det
9	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slip	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not slip	present	the huntsmen			the peas			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

they tread very firm and wore spiked iron boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tread	nsubj
2	tread	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 firm	advmod
4	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tread	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wore	cc
6	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tread	conj
7	spiked	spike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 boots	amod
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boots	compound
9	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tread	present	they		firm property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wear	past	they not said here	spiked iron boots		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
3	spike	participle				tree rules

Option 2

their feet were wrapped in thick woollen cloths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrapped	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrapped	aux:pass
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 cloths	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cloths	amod
7	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cloths	amod
8	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past · passive		their feet		thick woollen cloths			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cloth=Destination

Option 3

they walked quite slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	they					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they tread dead firm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tread	nsubj
2	tread	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 firm	amod
4	firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tread	present	they	dead firm					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location firm=Theme

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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