Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

What did the warlock say to feed the worm, pet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: warlock · What happens: say, feed · To what, where: worm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 warlock	det
4	warlock	warlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feed	mark
7	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 worm	det
9	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pet	punct
11	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 worm	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the warlock						tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive			the worm and pet				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Recipient

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 right answer

Seven cows' milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cows	nummod
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 milk	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 cows	case
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Seven ewes' milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ewes	nummod
2	ewes	ewe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 milk	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 ewes	case
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Seven cows' milk poured into a golden bowl by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cows	nummod
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 milk	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 cows	case
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 milk	acl
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 bowl	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bowl	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bowl	amod
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	participle		Seven cows's milk not said here		a golden bowl		by the door	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bowl=Location

Option 4

Milk from seven cows, given each morning at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj:pass
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 cows	case
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cows	nummod
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Milk	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obl:unmarked
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dawn	case
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle · passive		Milk from seven cows			dawn; morning		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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