Test 14 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

Wait, what was actually in the Little Bear's bed when the bears came back?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bears · What happens: wait, be, come back · To what, where: bed

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bed	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 bed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bed	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	11 bed	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bear	det
8	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Bear	amod
9	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bed	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Bear	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bears	det
14	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past		the Little Bear's bed	actually property	tree rules
3	come back	past	the bears			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

the old woman's ugly, dirty head resting on the Little Bear's pillow

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 woman	case
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ugly	punct
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 head	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	15 pillow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bear	det
12	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Bear	amod
13	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pillow	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Bear	case
15	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 resting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	gerund	the old woman's ugly dirty head not said here			the Little Bear's pillow			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pillow=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the old woman's long grey hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hair	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 woman	case
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the old woman's ugly, dirty head, with her hair in a tangle

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 woman	case
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 head	punct
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hair	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hair	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 tangle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tangle	det
15	tangle	tangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hair	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the old woman's ugly, dirty head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 woman	case
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ugly	punct
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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