Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must…

what's a skein, is that a snack

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snack, skein · What happens: be · To what, where: skein, snack

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1943 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must spin five skeins a day or lose her head, and a little black impet offers to help» 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	4 skein	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 skein	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 skein	det
4	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snack	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skein	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 snack	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 snack	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snack	det
9	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a snack	a skein					tree rules
2	is a	present	a skein	a snack					tree rules

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

nah, it's a long coil of wool or silk that the king wanted her to spin every day

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 coil	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coil	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 coil	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coil	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coil	amod
7	coil	coil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wool	case
9	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coil	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 silk	cc
11	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wool	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 wanted	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wanted	nsubj
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coil	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 spin	mark
18	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spin	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a long coil		of wool or silk	tree rules
2	want	past	the king	her = she			tree rules
3	spin not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here		day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, it's a kind of sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sweet	case
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a kind				of sweet	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it's a loop of yarn, like wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 loop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loop	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loop	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 loop	det
6	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 yarn	case
8	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loop	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wool	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 wool	case
11	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a loop and wool				of yarn	tree rules

Option 4

nah, it's a loop of yarn, like wool, that you spin on a wheel to make thread

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 loop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loop	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loop	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 loop	det
6	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 yarn	case
8	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loop	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wool	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 wool	case
11	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loop	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spin	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 spin	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 spin	nsubj
15	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loop	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 wheel	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wheel	det
18	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spin	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 spin	advcl
21	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a loop and wool		of yarn	tree rules
2	spin	present	you		a wheel		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on wheel=Trajectory
3	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	thread			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thread=Product

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