Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a…

Wait, what did the fool give the lass to seal the deal?

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lass	det
9	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 seal	mark
11	seal	seal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 deal	det
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seal	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			tree rules
3	give	present	the fool	the lass	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lass=Theme
4	seal	to-infinitive	the fool not said here	the deal	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient

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

his favourite old boot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 boot	nmod:poss
2	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boot	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boot	amod
4	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his best silver ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ring	nmod:poss
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 ring	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	compound
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his lucky penny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 penny	nmod:poss
2	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 penny	amod
3	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

his hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hat	nmod:poss
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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