Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

How'd they get down the big tree, with no branches, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: get down · To what, where: big tree

This is test 12 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 branches	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 branches	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 branches	det
12	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bruv	punct
14	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 branches	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get down	present	they	the big tree				with no branches and bruv	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

steps made of hands and feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 steps	acl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hands	case
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 feet	cc
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		steps not said here				of hands and feet	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

steps made of toes and fingers up the trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 steps	acl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 toes	case
4	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fingers	cc
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 toes	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	9 trunk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trunk	det
9	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 toes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		steps not said here				of toes up the trunk and fingers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a rope with knots and loops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 knots	case
4	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rope	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 loops	cc
6	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knots	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

steps made of toes and fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 steps	acl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 toes	case
4	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fingers	cc
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 toes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		steps not said here				of toes and fingers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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