Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34:…

Wait, why did the master call his bed a barnacle, like a weird sea thing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, master · What happens: wait, call · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1975 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34: the princess helps three golden heads, wins a king, and her stepsister is sent off with sweets» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 call	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 master	det
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bed	nmod:poss
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 barnacle	det
11	barnacle	barnacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	17 thing	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
15	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thing	compound
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call speech: assert	past · do-support	the master	master's bed					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bed=Recipient

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

Cos it was a shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 shell	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shell	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shell	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shell	det
5	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					cos a shell	tree rules

Option 2

Cos the sea was near his house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 house	cop
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				his house		cos the sea	tree rules

Option 3

Cos barnacles are his favourite food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 barnacles	amod
2	barnacles	barnacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 food	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 food	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cos barnacles	his favourite food					tree rules

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

Cos he made up his own names for stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 made	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 names	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 names	amod
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 stuff	case
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	he	his own names				for stuff	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme name=Pivot
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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