Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Mate, what was the ointment even for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: ointment

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ointment	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 ointment	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ointment	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ointment	det
6	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 for	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	6 ointment	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the ointment	the ointment					tree rules

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

to rub the baby's feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 rub	mark
2	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feet	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 baby	case
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rub	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	to-infinitive		the baby's feet					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme

Option 2

to cover the imps' whole faces and hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 cover	mark
2	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 imps	det
4	imps	imp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 faces	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 imps	case
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 faces	amod
7	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cover	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hands	cc
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 faces	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	to-infinitive		the imps's whole faces and hands					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination

Option 3

to heal the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 heal	mark
2	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	to-infinitive		the cook					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cook=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to stroke the baby's eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stroke	mark
2	stroke	stroke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eyes	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 baby	case
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stroke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroke	to-infinitive		the baby's eyes					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Experiencer

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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