Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…

Yo, what time did Tattercoats roll up to the ball?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tattercoats · What happens: roll up · To what, where: ball

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 roll	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	obl:unmarked
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 roll	aux
6	Tattercoats	tattercoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roll	nsubj
7	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 roll	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ball	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ball	det
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 roll	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll up	past · do-support	Tattercoats			the ball	time		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ball=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 · ✓ the right answer

Right when the clock struck twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	5 struck	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 struck	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clock	det
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	nsubj
5	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the clock	twelve				right property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient

Option 2

Just after the clock struck one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	5 struck	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 struck	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clock	det
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	nsubj
5	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the clock	one					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 3

Right after the bells rang nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	5 rang	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 rang	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bells	det
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rang	nsubj
5	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 rang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the bells	nine				right property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nine=Theme

Option 4

At noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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