Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

Whit did Kate dae wi the wand, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: Kate

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	3 Kate	dep
5	wi	wi	ADP	_	7 wand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wand	det
7	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wand	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	Kate				wi the wand and mate	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kate=Eventuality

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

She waved it ower Anne's heid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obj
4	ower	owe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 waved	xcomp
5	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heid	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Anne	case
7	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	She	it				owe property	tree rules

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

She touched Anne three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obj
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touched	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	She	Anne			time		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anne=Co-Theme

Option 3

She tapped Anne twice wi it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tapped	nsubj
2	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wi	nsubj
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 wi	advmod
5	wi	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tapped	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wi	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	past	She						tree rules
2	wi	past	Anne	it				twice property	tree rules

Option 4

She woke Anne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	She	Anne					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent anne=Patient

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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