Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

wait, how did the Vinegars sleep up in that tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Vinegars · What happens: wait, sleep up · To what, where: tree

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sleep	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sleep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sleep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Vinegars	det
6	Vinegars	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sleep	nsubj
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 sleep	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep up	past · do-support	the Vinegars			that tree			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

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

on the door high in the oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	obl
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	obl

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

Option 2

on the door up in the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 door	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 door	nmod

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

Option 3

on the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 roof	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roof	det
3	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

on the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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