Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…

what did the first head want, like be nice to it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first head · What happens: do, want, be · To what, where: head

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1976 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude girl is cursed by the heads and wed to a cobbler» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 head	amod
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nice	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 nice	case
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 nice	cop
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 want	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nice	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	want	present	the first head			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	infinitive	the first head not said here	head	nice property	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

clean it, brush it, lay it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 clean	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brush	punct
4	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 clean	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brush	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
7	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 clean	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 lay	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	clean	imperative	you not said here	it	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	brush	infinitive	you not said here	it	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	lay down	infinitive	you not said here	it	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

wash, comb and lay it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 comb	punct
3	comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 wash	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lay	cc
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 wash	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 lay	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	comb	infinitive	you not said here		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	lay down	infinitive	you not said here	it	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

wash its hair, comb it proper and lay it down gentle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wash	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 comb	punct
5	comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 wash	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 comb	obj
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 comb	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lay	cc
9	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 wash	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lay	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 lay	compound:prt
12	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	its hair		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	comb	infinitive	you not said here	hair	properly property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	lay down	infinitive	you not said here	hair	gentle property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result

Option 4

wash it and lay it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wash	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lay	cc
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 wash	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 lay	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	lay down	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result

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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