Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

What did they get the fish to do, like, drink the lake dry?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, fish · What happens: get, do, like, drink · To what, where: fish, lake dry

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» 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 get	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 get	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drink	punct
12	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 like	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dry	det
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dry	compound
15	dry	dry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drink	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	they	the fish	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the fish not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	infinitive			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	drink	infinitive		the lake dry	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dry=Patient

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

dry the lake out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lake	det
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dry	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	1 dry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	imperative	you not said here	the lake					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lake=Result

Option 2

drink up the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 drink	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lake	det
4	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink up	imperative	you not said here	the lake					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient

Option 3

drink the water of the whole lake dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drink	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 dry	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dry	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dry	amod
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dry	compound
8	dry	dry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	the water				of the whole lake dry	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

drink the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	the water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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