Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…

Mate, how'd the rags turn so mega fancy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rags, mega · What happens: turn, fancy · To what, where: fancy

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 245 «English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances into the ball and is crowned Princess, and the gooseherd vanishes» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 turn	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rags	det
6	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	nsubj
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 fancy	advmod
9	mega	mega	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fancy	nmod:poss
10	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the rags	mega's fancy					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme
2	fancy		mega						nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

The herdboy's pipe did it, like magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 herdboy	det
2	herdboy	herdboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pipe	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 herdboy	case
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 magic	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 magic	case
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the herdboy's pipe	herdboy				like magic	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

Her own skill with the needle did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 skill	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skill	amod
3	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 needle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 needle	det
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skill	nmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Her own skill with the needle	needle					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Sewing did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sewing	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	do	past		it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

The King's tailors sewed them all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tailors	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sewed	nsubj
5	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sewed	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sewed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past	the King's tailors	them = they			night		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product

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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