Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

Mate, what did the old woman do to the Little Bear's chair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: do · To what, where: Mate

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» 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	8 do	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 chair	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bear	det
11	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Bear	amod
12	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 chair	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Bear	case
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the old woman	Mate				to the Little Bear's chair	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

she sat on it so hard that the bottom and legs both gave way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sat	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 legs	cc
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bottom	conj
12	both	both	ADV	_	13 gave	advmod
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	advcl
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she			it		hard property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
2	give	past	the bottom and legs	way				both property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

Option 2

she moved it to the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	she	it		the wall			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wall=Trajectory

Option 3

she sat the bottom out of it and broke the back too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottom	det
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 it	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 broke	cc
9	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 back	det
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 broke	obj
12	too	too	ADV	_	9 broke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she	the bottom		bottom			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme out it=Location
2	break	past	she not said here	the back					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she sat the bottom out of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottom	det
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 it	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she	the bottom		bottom			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme out it=Location

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