Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34:…

Mate, what's the deal with "squibs and crackers" for trousers?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 squibs	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 squibs	punct
9	squibs	squib	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deal	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crackers	cc
11	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 squibs	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 squibs	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 trousers	case
14	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 squibs	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and the deal	the deal				with squibs for trousers and crackers	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

His own made-up name for a fine hat that he wore when he went hunting

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 name	amod
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 name	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 hat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hat	det
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hat	amod
10	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 wore	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wore	nsubj
13	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hat	acl:relcl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wore	ccomp
17	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	wear	past	he	a fine hat not said here		tree rules
3	go	past	he			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hunt	gerund	he not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	name		His = he		for a fine hat	nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A real old fashioned word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
4	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His own made-up name, not real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 name	amod
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 name	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 real	advmod
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 name	amod

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

Option 4

A sea creature for trousers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 creature	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creature	compound
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 trousers	case
5	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 creature	nmod

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

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