Test 6 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Wait, what did the imp's hair do at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: end

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 imp	det
6	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hair	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 imp	case
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	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	do	past · do-support					at the end		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

curled up like a dry leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 curled	compound:prt
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 leaf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaf	amod
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 curled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	participle						like a dry leaf	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it floated off like a dandelion over the whole field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 floated	compound:prt
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 dandelion	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dandelion	det
6	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obl
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 field	amod
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float off	past	it			the whole field		like a dandelion	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

floated off like a dandelion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 floated	compound:prt
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 dandelion	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dandelion	det
5	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float off	participle						like a dandelion	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

floated off like a dandelion puff in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 floated	compound:prt
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 puff	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puff	det
5	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puff	compound
6	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wind	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float off	participle				the wind		like a dandelion puff	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Trajectory

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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