Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

bruv, what words did she shout that got the men splashing in the pond?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: words, that, men · What happens: shout, get, splash · To what, where: bruv, men, pond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shout	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 shout	obj
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shout	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shout	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shout	nsubj
7	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bruv	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shout	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 got	obj
12	splashing	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 men	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pond	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pond	det
15	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 splashing	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · do-support	words	bruv		tree rules
2	get	past	that	the men		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	splash	gerund	the men not said here		the pond	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

"By virtue of my three feathers"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 virtue	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 virtue	case
3	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feathers	nummod
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 virtue	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 virtue	punct

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

Option 2

"By the power of my two feathers"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 power	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	4 power	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 power	det
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 feathers	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feathers	nmod:poss
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 feathers	nummod
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 power	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 power	punct

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

Option 3

"By virtue of my three feathers and my shining crown"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 virtue	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 virtue	case
3	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feathers	nummod
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 virtue	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crown	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 crown	nmod:poss
10	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 crown	amod
11	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 virtue	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 crown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine in a quote	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crown in a quote		my						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

"By virtue of my three feathers, be soaked, all of you"

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 soaked	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 virtue	case
3	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soaked	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feathers	nummod
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 virtue	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 virtue	punct
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 soaked	aux:pass
10	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 soaked	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 soaked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 all	nmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 soaked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak in a quote	infinitive · passive	virtue of my three feathers	all					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent all=Source

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