Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…

Sound, what did the dog have tied to his tail?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sound · What happens: do, tie · To what, where: dog, Sound

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» 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	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sound	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tied	aux
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Sound	the dog					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality
2	tie	present · perfect · passive		Sound				to dog's tail	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tail=Co-Patient

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

a bucket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bucket	det
2	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a tin kettle full of hot water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kettle	det
2	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kettle	compound
3	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kettle	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

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

Option 3

a heavy iron cooking kettle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kettle	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cooking	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooking	compound
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kettle	compound
5	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a kettle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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