Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

Mate, what got hung over the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hang · To what, where: Mate, fire

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1952 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails at three houses and ends up boiled in the pot» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hung	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hung	aux:pass
5	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · passive		Mate		the fire			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over fire=Destination

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

the iron pot with water and onions in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pot	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	compound
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 onions	cc
7	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pot	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 onions	nmod

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

Option 2

the big black pot full of boiling water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pot	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pot	amod
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pot	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

the pan of broth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pan	det
2	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 broth	case
4	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pan	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the pot of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod

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

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