Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

Yo, how did the Three Bears' porridge look to the old woman?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: porridge · What happens: look

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 look	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bears	det
6	Three	Three	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bears	compound
7	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
8	'	's	PART	_	7 Bears	case
9	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 woman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	porridge					to the old woman	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to woman=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

so hot that it steamed and burned her tongue at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	2 hot	advmod
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 steamed	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 steamed	nsubj
5	steamed	steam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hot	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 burned	cc
7	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 steamed	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tongue	nmod:poss
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burned	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steam	past	it						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	burn	past		her tongue					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

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

neither too hot nor too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	neither	neither	ADV	_	3 hot	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 hot	advmod
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cold	cc
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hot	conj

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

Option 3

neither too hot nor too cold, but just right for eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	neither	neither	ADV	_	3 hot	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 hot	advmod
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cold	cc
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hot	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 right	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 right	advmod
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hot	conj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 eating	mark
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 right	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

very thick and very sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 thick	advmod
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sweet	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sweet	advmod
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thick	conj

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

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