Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

How did Kate help her sister, wee man?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kate · What happens: help · To what, where: sister

This is test 4 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 help	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
8	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sister	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past · do-support	Kate		Kate's sister and wee man				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Beneficiary

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

Wrapped her heid in linen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 heid	nmod:poss
3	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrapped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 linen	case
5	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past		her heid		linen			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heid=Theme in linen=Destination

Option 2

She hid her in the barn

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 barn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barn	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	She	her = she		the barn			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in barn=Location

Option 3

She fed her

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 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	She		her = she				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 4

She sang tae her

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 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	She					tae her = she	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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