Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

Whit's wi Anne's heid, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗

This is test 3 · ★ 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heid	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Whit	case
3	wi	wi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Anne	compound
4	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heid	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Anne	case
6	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heid	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 heid	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It gets swapped for a cow's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swapped	nsubj:pass
2	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swapped	aux:pass
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 tail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cow	case
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present · passive		It				for a cow's tail	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for tail=Co-Theme

Option 2

It gets swapped twice for a pig's heid and a bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swapped	nsubj:pass
2	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swapped	aux:pass
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 swapped	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 heid	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pig	det
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heid	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 pig	case
9	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bell	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bell	det
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present · passive		It				for a pig's heid and a bell; twice property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for heid=Co-Theme

Option 3

It gets swapped for a sheep's heid an a' the wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swapped	nsubj:pass
2	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swapped	aux:pass
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 heid	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heid	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sheep	case
8	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapped	obl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wool	det
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wool	det
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 wool	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wool	det
13	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present · passive		It				for a sheep's heid	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It gets swapped for a sheep's heid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swapped	nsubj:pass
2	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swapped	aux:pass
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 heid	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heid	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sheep	case
8	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present · passive		It				for a sheep's heid	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for heid=Co-Theme

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