Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

Hinny, what wood was the boat's keel made of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hinny · What happens: be, make · To what, where: keel

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Hinny	Hinny	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keel	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 keel	nsubj
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keel	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 keel	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keel	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 boat	case
9	keel	keel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hinny	appos
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 keel	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 made	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hinny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Hinny	the boat's keel					tree rules
2	make	participle		the boat's keel not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

Ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rowan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rowan	rowan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Hard seasoned oak timber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 seasoned	advmod
2	seasoned	seasoned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 timber	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 timber	compound
4	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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