Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

Whit did the birdie dae fer the prince?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birdie	det
4	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fer	nsubj
5	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	6 fer	nsubj
6	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 did	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fer	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Made him well again after three bites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 again	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Made	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 bites	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bites	nummod
7	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		him = he			after three bites; again		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Made him well again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Made	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		him = he			again	well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 3

Cured him and made him sit up in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cured	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 made	cc
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Cured	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sit	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cure	past		him = he		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source
2	make	past		him = he		tree rules
3	sit up	infinitive	him = he not said here		bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

Option 4

Made him feel better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Made	xcomp
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		him = he					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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