Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

What job did the giant give Nix for the stable, a proper nightmare?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: job · What happens: give · To what, where: Nix

This is test 9 · ★ 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 job	det
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 give	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 give	amod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	iobj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 stable	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stable	det
10	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nightmare	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nightmare	det
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nightmare	amod
14	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stable	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	what job		Nix			for the stable and a proper nightmare	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent nix=Theme for stable=Asset

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

scrub and clean every bit of it by tomorrow night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scrub	scrub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 clean	cc
3	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 scrub	conj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clean	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bit	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 night	compound
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scrub	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	imperative	you not said here				night		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	clean	infinitive	you not said here	every bit of bit					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bit=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

clean it by tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 clean	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 tomorrow	case
4	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 clean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	imperative	you not said here	it			tomorrow		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

muck it out by noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	muck	muck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 muck	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 muck	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 noon	case
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 muck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	muck out	imperative	you not said here	it			noon		tree rules

Option 4

clean it all by tomorrow morning, no excuses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 clean	obj
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 morning	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 morning	compound
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 clean	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 excuses	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 excuses	det
9	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 clean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	imperative	you not said here	it			morning	no excuses obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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