Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a…

Mint, how did the fool get properly dusty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mint, fool · What happens: do, get

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 247 «English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a coat o' clay, gets muddy and drunk, and learns he is still a fool» 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	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	9 dusty	advmod
9	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mint						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the fool					dusty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

rolling by the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 gate	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund						by the gate	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by gate=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

lying in the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 road	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the road			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location

Option 3

in mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 mud	case
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

in the drain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 drain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drain	det
3	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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