Test 4 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

What's the curse Tom gets landed with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: curse · What happens: be, land · To what, where: Tom

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 curse	det
4	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 landed	nsubj
6	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 landed	aux:pass
7	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 curse	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 landed	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the curse						tree rules
2	land	present · passive		Tom					vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination

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 born thief's luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thief	det
2	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thief	amod
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 luck	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 thief	case
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a born fool's luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fool	det
2	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fool	amod
3	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 luck	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 fool	case
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 luck	amod
2	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 curse	det
2	curse	curse	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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